chapoutier said:

There yuh go, Chap. Now the only question left is when you’ll be converting all your assets to cash to lay it down on ol’ Harry at Intrade. We’re talkin’ easy money here, after all!

Never said it was a sure thing. All I said is that Angle took a sure thing in the other direction and drove it into a tree.

So, Chap, then you’re only trying to bolster your spirit by whistling past a graveyard?

Okay – you don’t need to sell the farm, but if actually believed what you’ve said you’d be laying at least a few hundred down. Com’n, open the wallet.

But I understand your reluctance. As I mentioned before even the WH is gloomy about the reality. Barring something wild and totally unforeseen, Reid won’t be the only Dem that Americans will be putting into retirement.

The continual flow of news such as this will likely not lift Dem spirits much:
PPP: Obama, Palin tied 46/46 in 2012 polling.

There yuh go, Chap. Now the only question left is when you’ll be converting all your assets to cash to lay it down on ol’ Harry at Intrade. We’re talkin’ easy money here, after all!

Never said it was a sure thing. All I said is that Angle took a sure thing in the other direction and drove it into a tree.

chapoutier said:
Intrade has Reid as a 52% likely winner.

There yuh go, Chap. Now the only question left is when you’ll be converting all your assets to cash to lay it down on ol’ Harry at Intrade. We’re talkin’ easy money here, after all!

But on the plus size, Chap, since Reid is a shoo-in you might want to sell the farm and make a killing in the wagering markets.

Speaking of…Intrade has Reid as a 52% likely winner. He was at 25% before Angle came along.

chapoutier said:
did you SEE those poll numbers?

Yup, I think others have already made note of the fact that Reid has been unable to break 43% support since the polling started. For Angle – or anyone else for that matter – it doesn’t matter if she wins by 5 points or 50 points. To coin a phrase: a win is a win.

Every time she opens her mouth it seems it is another half point swing Reid’s way.

I agree – her statement declaring there are “No Illegal Immigrants Doing Construction Work In Nevada” is one example of a desperate and tottally clueless candidate.

Oh wait. That wasn’t Angle, my bad. No wonder Reid’s kid is trying to run for office as just “Rory 2010.” I dunno if that’ll help, though. (If so, we’ll likely see a run of Democrats changing their last names to “2010″.)

But on the plus size, Chap, since Reid is a shoo-in you might want to sell the farm and make a killing in the wagering markets.

Lessee here – we got us a candidate who is very well situated to take out the sitting Democratic leader of the US Senate. Yeppers, I think can live with such disasters.

Wait, wait wait… did you SEE those poll numbers? All of them since she wone the primary showed Angle wth a steady decline. That is not a good sign for her. Every time she opens her mouth it seems it is another half point swing Reid’s way.

I am certainly less than enthusiastic about our Senate and governorship candidates in California, although, admittedly, it is a tough state from a conservative’s perspective.

We should be walking away with the Senate seats in Nevada and Kentucky, but we are not. Assuming a victory in Kentucky, we are electing a loose cannon, to say the least, and from a state where we should be able to elect a reliable conservative with no crazy genes.

I guess it is not useful to walk through the party and rip our candidates so I will stop here. But there seem to be a lot of them to be unenthusiastic about.

chapoutier said:

purp, we are way off topic, but…

Not me, Chap. I just wondered if the Dem’s Nov prospects drove you to some serious “goodbye cruel world” mulling.

Do you really think Angle is a good candidate?

Like I sez, I don’t bring her up, that’s more your worry. Other than her being the one who’ll quite likely end Reid’s career, I don’t think much about her either way. Besides, I’m not GOP, Conservative, etc, just a “small i independent” who won’t miss Harry.

If she is losing that much support with a pollster with a well documented Republican house effect, how do you think she’s doing in real life?

“Well documented”, lol. It’s well documented that I’m the latest incarnation of Krishna. But if you’re looking for straight, apolitical polling that incorporates Rasmussen, you might wanna check out:
Pollster (2010 Nevada Senate General Election)
which yields, at the very least, a statistical dead heat with her leading Reid by almost 5 points.

Admit it…she is a disaster of a candidate.

Lessee here – we got us a candidate who is very well situated to take out the sitting Democratic leader of the US Senate. Yeppers, I think can live with such disasters.