Enos, call your office: Angle bounces back in Mason-Dixon poll

Russ Steele

Our Nevada County liberals just love to point the finger at Tea Party declines and mistakes, especially Steve Enos. Yesterday in comment, on a local self professed middle of the road blog, he noted that Sharon Angel was falling behind Harry Reid, with some glee.

Oh, what a day makes in politics, Hot Air has the latest polls. 

Yesterday’s Rasmussen poll showed Harry Reid clinging to a two-point lead among likely voters, 45/43, which sounded better than the previous Mason-Dixon poll that showed Angle back six at 43/37.  The Rasmussen poll’s series on the race didn’t really show any movement, though, which created some skepticism about whether Angle had really rebounded.  However, today’s Mason-Dixon poll removes that doubt:

The numbers: Reid 43%, Angle 42%. The survey of likely voters has a ±4% margin of error. In the previous Mason-Dixon poll from two weeks ago, though, Reid had an even stronger lead of 44%-37%, as a result of relentless attacks on Angle’s right-wing positions and her steady stream of gaffes. The TPM Poll Average gives Reid a lead of 44.3%-42.6%.

As Eric Kleefeld reports at TPM, the bleeding stopped because Angle got on the air and started responding to the massive wave of attack ads Harry Reid launched after the primaries.  Angle has begun running her ads in Nevada and making her case.  Reid apparently can only get so far by going negative, and that limit is around the 43-45% mark.

Read the rest  of the post on Hot Air here.