{"id":5477,"date":"2010-06-08T07:48:34","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T14:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/?p=5477"},"modified":"2010-06-09T11:01:41","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T18:01:41","slug":"lowden-calls-reid-interference-in-republican-primary-%e2%80%9cunprecedented%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/lowden-calls-reid-interference-in-republican-primary-%e2%80%9cunprecedented%e2%80%9d\/","title":{"rendered":"Lowden Calls Reid Interference in Republican Primary \u201cUnprecedented\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Sean Whaley\/Nevada News Bureau)<\/em> – GOP U.S. Senate candidate Sue Lowden said today she is \u201cvery encouraged\u201d by the exit polling results her campaign has seen from early voting as primary election day draws near.<\/p>\n

She said in an interview on the Nevada NewsMakers television program that the results of a poll reported over the weekend in the Las Vegas Review-Journal showing Sharron Angle taking a commanding lead in the multi-candidate primary is several days old and included people who have not yet voted. The poll was conducted June 1 through 3.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we\u2019ve been tracking those who have left their homes, the comforts of their homes, and gone to early vote and we\u2019re very, very encouraged,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Lowden did not disclose what her tracking polls are showing, saying she didn\u2019t have the information available.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s different in every part of the state that we\u2019ve been tracking,\u201d she said. \u201cBut I can tell you we feel really good about those who have voted already.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lowden said voters should not be swayed by the ads running in the Senate race from outside groups, particularly those from the Patriot Majority PAC, which she said has links to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.<\/p>\n

The political action committee, run by a former Reid campaign staffer, is running an ad in Nevada attacking Lowden\u2019s record on taxes during her term in the state Senate in the 1990s.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do wish outside groups had stayed out of our race,\u201d she said. \u201cHarry Reid has clearly decided he doesn\u2019t want me in November to defeat him; he thinks it\u2019s easier to defeat me in June. I\u2019m hoping that people see through it.\u201d<\/p>\n

While voters may be tired of negative campaigning, Lowden said GOP primary voters need to know that outside groups are trying to influence the results, including \u201cHarry Reid friendlies who are doing that, trying to influence our Republican primary, like I\u2019ve never seen before in this state.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lowden said questions raised about several incidents during her campaign, such as her suggestion that people barter with their doctors for care, were made issues by Reid to distract voters from his failures on jobs and the economy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey can\u2019t find anything about me, so they make it up,\u201d she said. \u201cHe\u2019s going to do anything to protect his job to make sure he has a job in November. He doesn\u2019t care about the tens of thousands of people who don\u2019t have jobs in Nevada. He\u2019s not talking about that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lowden made similar remarks in an appearance on MSNBC\u2019s Hardball this afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Sean Whaley\/Nevada News Bureau) – GOP U.S. Senate candidate Sue Lowden said today she is \u201cvery encouraged\u201d by the exit polling results her campaign has seen from early voting as primary election day draws near. She said in an interview on the Nevada NewsMakers television program that the results of a poll reported over the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5477"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5477"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5491,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5477\/revisions\/5491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}