Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has a new TV ad against Republican nominee Sharron Angle, with a simple message for the state’s voters: Angle’s support for a nuclear waste facility at Yucca Mountain could destroy our entire state.
The ad shows a parade of nuclear waste trucks rolling by, accompanied by scary music. “Each year, five-million pounds of radioactive nuclear waste are disposed of in the U.S.,” the announcer says. “Sharron Angle wants to bring all five million pounds here, for reprocessing in Nevada. But one nuclear spill could endanger our families, and kill Las Vegas tourism forever.”
The ad then cuts to a frightening image of an oil-soaked pelican, presumably from the BP oil spill: “And we all know how devastating one spill can be.”
The TPM Poll Average currently puts Reid ahead by 47.6%-44.3%.