A new Rasmussen poll shows Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., trailing former state Assemblywoman Sharron Angle, R, by 7 points:
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in Nevada shows Angle earning 48% support, while Reid, the state’s longtime Democratic senator, picks up 41% of the vote. Eight percent (8%) like some other candidate in the race, while just two percent (2%) are undecided.
Rasmussen’s voter-turnout model may prove correct for 2010, but I remain skeptical until I see another pollster with similar results for Angle. Yet one result has been similar among all pollsters: You don’t often see incumbents survive with numbers like the ones Reid has been posting consistently, from a variety of different pollsters — high 30s, low 40s.
There’s a lot of good oppo research on Angle, but the onus is on Reid. His huge ad buys — positive and negative — are doing little to help him so far. It’s so bad that his own son, running for governor, is running away from the family name.
