links for 2010-03-05

Nevada

2010 Senate
51% Lowden, 38% Reid (chart)
50% Tarkanian, 37% Reid (chart)
46% Angle, 38% Reid

Favorable / Unfavorable
Harry Reid: 39 / 58 (chart)
Sue Lowden: 54 / 31
Danny Tarkanian: 52 / 29
Sharron Angle: 40 / 36
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Without a Tea Party split, Reid id done – put a fork in him.

Republican Sen. Tony Strickland plans to launch a rematch against Controller John Chiang.

The Thousand Oaks Republican, who's termed out in 2016, will officially announce the campaign at next weekend's California Republican Party Convention.

GOP strategist Mitch Zak said Strickland was encouraged to jump in the race by Republican guv-hopeful Meg Whitman.

"Meg asked him to run and he graciously agreed," Zak, a Whitman adviser, said. "He absolutely strengthens a great ticket. He'll make it even better."

Chiang, a Democrat, defeated Strickland by 10 points when the two battled in a cash-fueled campaign for the open seat in 2006.

Zak said Strickland's hard-fought 2008 Senate victory, in which he edged out former Democratic Assemblywoman Hannah-Beth Jackson by less than one percent of the vote, has prepped him for another tough campaign.
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Tony Strickland will give Chiang a run for his money.

With a studio full of media, and three very ripe senatorial candidates ready to have at it over national security, defense and foreign affairs, the 1380 KTKZ studio was the source for the first California GOP U. S. Senatorial Debate.
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Listen to it all…..

The audio that follows features participants: Republican CA Assembly Member Chuck DeVore, former CEO of HP Carly Fiorina and former Republican House Representative Tom Campbell.