TARK TALES

OK, sit down before you read this one, because I’m (reluctantly) going to defend Danny Tarkanian here. According to blogger Greg Sargent of The Plum Line on Thursday:
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Poor Danny Tarkanian. As the primary enters the final stretch in the U.S. Senate race in Nevada, his campaign message just gets lamer and lamer.
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The only worse than how Sue Lowden’s campaign has handled her “Chickens for Checkups” problem is how badly Danny Tarkanian’s campaign has handled, well, his entire campaign by offering nothing but negative and usually false attacks on Lowden. He’s doing so again today with a new radio ad attacking her for once being pro-choice on abortion. Here’s the text of the spot:
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Las Vegas blogger Hugh Jackson, aka The Gleaner, is nothing short of brutal in his assessment of the current state of what currenlty constitutes Danny Tarkanian’s campaign for the United States Senate in a post titled “Hopeless offspring of marginally famous person continues to dissapoint.”
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The big loser in the Tea Party Express endorsement of Sharron Angle in the Nevada U.S. Senate race is Danny Tarkanian, who’s already been slipping further and further behind front-runner Sue Lowden. Don’t be surprised to see Angle now close in on, and maybe overtake, Tark for the #2 spot in the next round of polls.

Which reminds me: Hot rumor of the day is that Danny has been quietly talking to some other consultants about coming in to try to resurrect his dying political ambitions. Don’t know if it’s true or not (for some reason, the Tarkanian campaign doesn’t tell me much), but the Angle tea party endorsement might have been the final straw for his current out-of-state political hacks, Jamie Fisfis and Brian Seitchik.

Poor Team Tark can’t seem to report even the simplest things accurately.
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Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist John L. Smith weighs in on the latest Mason-Dixon polling results in the U.S. Senate primary race which were published this past weekend.

“Sue Lowden continues to expand her lead over Danny Tarkanian. . . . Lowden clearly is benefiting from her decision to ignore Tarkanian’s daily insults and focus as the foregone favorite to face Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Her TV spots have been just right, in my opinion, and she has showed just enough money to push Tarkanian out of the game.

“Tarkanian, meanwhile, has seemed more marginal as his frustration has grown. Free advice to Tark: Use the next few weeks to position yourself for a future office. Make those contacts, shore up those relationships. Hike the high road because if this poll is anywhere near accurate, you’re toast this time around.”

Good advice.

Perhaps the worst news for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Danny Tarkanian in the latest Mason-Dixon poll over the weekend wasn’t that fellow Republican Sue Lowden is holding onto her 18 point lead over him in the GOP primary, but the fact that he’s no longer beating Harry Reid.

Now that’s embarrassing.
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Both Sue Lowden and Danny Tarkanian were interviewed last night by FOX News’ Greta Van Susteren about their Nevada U.S. Senate campaigns. Haven’t watched Sue’s segment yet, but watched Danny’s this morning from his campaign website.

First, Danny did his usual Danny schtick – distorting and telling untruths about Sue’s record and positions. Nothing new there. But I actually have to give him credit for something else he said (would somebody please help Mr. FisFis up off the floor!).
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Seems like it was only a month ago that: “In a breathless press email to reporters and other interested folks, Team Tark excitedly pointed to polling ‘trendlines’ compiled by Pollster.com which they seem to believe show that Danny’s star is rising while Sue’s is going supernova.”

Well, here’s how that trendline has progressed over the last four weeks, including a week after Danny Tarkanian went up with his non-FEC compliant television ads:

1.) Sue Lowden has now significantly increased her lead over Harry Reid.
2.) Danny now trails Sharron Angle and has moved from second place to third place.

It’s really starting to look like Tark supporters have again hitched their wagon to a falling star.