Rasmussen: Angle 50-Reid 39

It's one poll and way to early to start popping the champagne but a very good start for Angle.

A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in Nevada, taken Wednesday night, shows Angle earning 50% support while Reid picks up 39% of the vote. Five percent (5%) like some other candidate, and six percent (6%) are undecided.

A month ago, Angle led Reid 48% to 40% but ran poorest against the incumbent of the three GOP primary hopefuls as she has for months.

Reid will try to portray Angle, a Christian conservative who drew heavily on Tea Party support for her win, as unacceptable to the state. Still, the race for now continues to be about the incumbent, who earned 61% of the vote when he was reelected in 2004 but whose support in this election cycle against any Republican candidate has never risen above the low 40s.

There are still some kinks for Angle to work out.

As Jim Geraghty notes, right now it seems the only thing you can do on her website is donate. I think there might be some people who would like to know a little about her and where she stands before they pony up.

Democrats and the MFM, but I repeat myself, are going to go after her on the Scientology sponsored drug rehap program and anything else they can find.

Fortunately, there's plenty to go after Harry Reid about. The National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee is first up with their "Wrong Way Reid" site.

posted by DrewM. at 12:25 PM

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