Nevada's GOP U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle pummeled Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid over Nevada's economic problems. The Angle campaign released new ads focusing on Nevada's unemployment news and placed the responsibility into the laps of President Obama and Sen. Harry Reid.
Fox News reports:
As President Obama swung by Las Vegas Friday night to rally support for the Democrat who is the prime target of Republicans this November, fresh economic data showed Nevada's jobless rate held at 14.4 percent, the worst in the nation. Reid might have been able to cast that as an improvement, since it marked the first time since January that number did not rise -- however, the jobless rate in the state's economic nerve center, Las Vegas, soared to a record high of 15 percent.
Angle's campaign released a statement overnight thanking Obama for his visit, claiming it helped her campaign raise $200,000 in online contributions.
Reid's role in passing the massive spending and Obamacare bills is hurting him badly. Obama is not popular in Nevada, particularly in Las Vegas.
Last year, Obama, in a town hall meeting in Elkhart, Ind., said that executives of failing financial institutions should use federal bailout money responsibly and that they cannot "take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayers' dime."
Then, this year, Obama said this about Las Vegas:
"You don't blow a bunch of cash on Vegas when you're trying to save for college."
Last month, Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman said he recently learned that Obama's comments cost the city over 200 conventions.
Nevadans voters would be idiots to vote to return Reid to the senate.
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