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Can Sue Lowden Knock Out Fightin’ Harry Reid in Nevada?

I have been around enough campaigns to know that you can usually identify the front-runner as the candidate who gets attacked first. If that rule of thumb applies in Nevada, then Majority Leader Harry Reid must figure he’d really have his hands full with former Republican state senator Sue Lowden.

Although it had long been rumored she would run, Lowden announced her candidacy on Oct. 1. The subsequent public opinion poll taken for the Las Vegas Review-Journal showed her narrowly leading former University of Nevada, Las Vegas basketball star Danny Tarkanian in the Republican primary — and beating Reid in a mock general election pairing by double digits. (The latest surveys show both Lowden and Tarkanian beating Reid by at least five points.) Tarkanian has lost two previous races, one for state senate and one for secretary of state.

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- March 21, 2010 -

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