Angle Trails Reid by Seven Points
The latest poll out of Nevada shows Sharron angle losing ground to Harry Reid:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has opened up a seven-point lead over Republican challenger Sharron Angle, according to a Mason-Dixon poll taken after Reid aired a barrage of negative ads targeting the former state legislator.
Reid, who has struggled just to break even against opponents in previous polls, takes 44 percent of the vote to Angle's 37 percent. Ten percent of voters said they were undecided.
The numbers are a reversal of fortune for Angle, who led Reid by three percentage points in last month's Mason-Dixon poll. Since then, Democrats have worked to paint Angle as an extreme conservative, seizing on her past criticism of federal entitlement programs and support for a nuclear waste facility at Nevada's Yucca mountain.
The attacks have moved the dial: Angle's unfavorable rating rose from 25 percent to 43 percent, while the percentage of respondents saying they had a favorable impression of her fell five points, from 38 percent to 33 percent. Her support fell among women, independents and even Republicans — 70 percent of GOP voters now say they plan to support her, compared with 81 percent a month ago.
Reid's numbers remain dismal as he fights for reelection in a state that's been hit especially hard by the recession. Just 37 percent of voters say they have a positive view of Reid, up a slim two points since June. Forty-six percent of voters say they have an unfavorable view of him, in a modest improvement of the 52-percent unfavorable number he clocked last month.
