Sharron Angle was one of the worst candidates in recent history. She won the Nevada Republican nomination for Senator because of a divided vote between Danny Tarkanian and Susan Lowden. She also had assistance from Harry Reid, who ran commercials attacking her 2 opponents and even had front groups supporting Angle. In fact, she was the opponent he wanted and ended up getting. Why did he want her? Because he knew she would be a terrible candidate, a social extremist who didn’t fit Nevada’s Libertarian leaning voters and my suspicion she was a false flag plant.
It’s widely recognized that in the marquee 2010 Senate race, Majority Leader Harry Reid ran a nearly flawless, textbook campaign, an operation so extraordinary that it enabled him to defy an almost certain political death.
It turns out he got some inadvertent inside help. Interviews with Nevada and Washington Republicans familiar with the campaign of Reid’s GOP opponent, Sharron Angle, describe a not-ready-for-prime-time effort that was equally astonishing — a model of dysfunction that was as bad as Reid’s campaign was good.
At the center of it was Terry Campbell, Angle’s closest adviser, who held the title of campaign manager.
