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Harry Reid's tea party insurance policy?

An extremist might win the GOP nomination in Nevada. Will that be enough to save the Senate majority leader?

On the surface, a Mason-Dixon poll released today is terrific news for Harry Reid. The Senate majority leader needs some big breaks if he's going to secure a fifth term this November, and the survey suggests that one might be on the way, with a Tea Party-backed candidate suddenly surging into contention in the GOP primary.

Sharron Angle, a former assemblywoman from Reno, is now within 5 points of Sue Lowden, the GOP front-runner, according to Mason-Dixon. That's a marked change from a month ago, when Lowden was running away with a three-way race with 45 percent and Angle was a last-place asterisk with just 5 percent.

It's a welcome development for Reid because Angle, with her far-right views, should make for the easiest fall target. Sure, most public polls now show Angle -- just like Lowden and just like the GOP's other candidate, Danny Tarkanian -- leading Reid by a healthy margin. But the assumption is that Angle's current strength is entirely a function of Reid's weaknesses: All things being equal, the Nevada electorate of 2010 is not inclined to send a top Democratic leader back to Washington for six more years.

Read @ Salon.com

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That's the result of Tea Party going to Searchlight.  Very interesting.