Harry Reid campaign manager Brandon Hall: “Sharron Angle is a Rand Paul-type candidate. In fact, I would say she’s more extreme than Rand Paul.”

Great piece on the big guns Team Reid brought in to Nevada to turn things around for the boss, particularly a guy named Kelly Steele with a bulldog rep they brought down from Washington state. Definitely take a look.

TPM Reader JP questions our editorial judgment:

You might have buried the lede with the Oath Keepers story. Concentration Camps are bad craziness, but is it really a tenet that they swear to oppose orders to invade a state “that asserts its sovereignty and declares the national government to be in violation of the compact by which that state entered the Union”?

Am I misunderstanding this but are they declaring that the Confederate side of the Civil War was the righteous side? And that active duty military should disobey orders or commit treason against the Union if it ever comes up again?

Yeah, it was a tough call.

Reason 101 why the Reid folks are so happy about Sharron Angle’s victory tonight. Probably one they don’t even know about yet. Just take a look.

I mentioned before that Sharron Angle’s win tonight may be the big tell about what to expect in November. But even though the Tea Party, down-the-line right candidate didn’t win in the California Republican Senate primary, Carly Fiorina herself ended up going really hard to the right to win the primary, particularly on immigration. And that will be a real cudgel for Barbara Boxer in the fall.

You probably haven’t heard about it, especially if you’re not in California. But the AP just declared it a win for Proposition 14 which will dramatically alter the way the state holds its primaries.

I cannot even begin to say how big a stroke of luck this is for Harry Reid.

We still don’t have clear read out of Nevada. But it’s not too early to take some stock of what tonight tells us. We know about the huge tide of anti-incumbency across the country. Blanche Lincoln looks like the exception that proves the rule on that one. And whatever you think of Lincoln, don’t underestimate the difficulty for an incumbent of getting pushed into a primary run-off with a very disappointing result and then coming back to win the run-off. That’s very difficult. Read More

Nevada’s the last big race really in suspense tonight. With 14% of precincts, Sharron Angle has a 2 point lead. Not a huge lead since Angle went into this evening a big favorite. I’m watching Jon Ralston’s Twitter feed to get his read on the county by county breakdown. Sounds like he thinks it’s not looking good for Sue Lowden. So cork popping at Reid HQ may still be in the offing.

Here’s Ralston’s latest tweet from about 5 minutes ago …

If Angle continues to gain ground in Clark — if this trend holds — Angle is going to win by big margin. Lowden needs surge.

To decode that message, Clark County is where Vegas is. And Lowden would need a real win there to have a chance statewide. So far it doesn’t look likes it’s happening.

Well, it looks like Nevada Republicans have had enough of their Gov. Jim Gibbons who becomes the first sitting governor in the state in like forever to get tossed out in a party primary. Eric Kleefeld asked, just how scandal-ridden do you have to be to get tossed in Nevada? Well, Gibbons really explored the outer bounds of that question with his divorce, multiple affairs, lies and a bunch of other stuff.

But remember, the alleged sexual assault of the waitress in that parking garage (not proven in a court of law but lots of evidence) happened before he was elected the first time. So, yeah, it takes a lot in Nevada. But it looks like Gibbons got the ball over the line.