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Angle campaign evidences sense of humor

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

No, I have not joined Team Angle.But I did get a little gift from the Sharron Angle for Senate campaign today, a token of appreciation that shows a side of the candidate we rarely see: the humorous side.Angle spokeswoman Ciara Matthews today dropped by the windowless compound on the Review-Journal

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In defense of Sharron Angle

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

Ian Millhiser, writing on the liberal blog Think Progress, accuses Sharron Angle of "...fighting against the Nevada Constitution's requirement that all children have the opportunity to obtain a public education" back in 2003, when then-Assemblywoman Angle voted against a tax package that would have funded schools.But that's not what

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Is it fair to link Brian Sandoval to Sharron Angle?

Monday, August 30th, 2010

That's what Rory Reid did right off the bat in Sunday's debate, a technique that prompted my colleague Jon Ralston to jokingly question whether Reid was engaging in McCarthyite tactics. "Yes," Reid replied, to laughter.But is linking Brian Sandoval to Sharron Angle a stretch, or a slur? Surely Sandoval has

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Love story? Ewwwwwww!

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

Sharron Angle's new ad ties Harry Reid directly to House Speaker Nancy Pelsoi and President Barack Obama via legislation the three have pushed, as well as pictures of Reid embracing both (not, thankfully, at the same time). It's part of Angle's overall attempt to pin the Democratic agenda on Reid,

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Angle explains ‘domestic enemies’ remark

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

Sharron Angle was only saying that some in Congress have failed to follow the Constitution and live up to their oath of office, not that there were traitors within the legislative branch, her campaign explained today.In a 2009 radio interview with Bill Manders, released today by the Harry Reid campaign,

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Spokeswoman: Angle is cool with black

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle does not believe the color black is evil or evokes the devil, says her campaign spokeswoman, Ciara Matthews.In a brief interview today, Matthews repeated the assertion that Angle has no recollection of opposing black jerseys for the Tonopah High School football team in 1992 because

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New NRSC ad is ‘extreme’

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

The National Republican Senatorial Committee is out with a new ad that aims to turn the "extreme" label on its head, applying it to Democrats who've been trying to paint the opposition as out of the mainstream. This is especially relevant to Nevada's Senate race (featured briefly in the ad)

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Why Angle is wrong, on black and on evil

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

Editor's note: This column appears in this week's issue of Las Vegas CityLife. After first issuing a statement to me on Tuesday that failed to deny Sharron Angle had made the remarks attributed to her in this piece, Angle told the Reno Gazette-Journal on Wednesday (and after CityLife's press

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Angle black-gate counter-spin

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

After a column in the Pahrump Valley Times reported that Sharron Angle campaigned in 1992 against black football jerseys for the Tonopah high school team because she said the color was "evil," the Angle campaign has tried unsuccessfully to change the subject.(A bit of backstory for those who haven't

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Reid wrongly agrees with GOP, gets slammed anyway

Monday, August 16th, 2010

Poor Harry Reid: Even when he agrees with the Republican Party, he still gets slammed.As some of you readers may know, Reid recently came out against the building of a mosque not far from Ground Zero in New York City, breaking ranks with President Barack Obama, who said

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