In the only debate between the two feisty Nevada candidates for Senate, there was not a single moment of union between the pair during the whole 60 minute event.
Republican candidate and Tea Party favorite Sharron Angle asked the Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, to “man up” as they entered the debate. Reid, rather less caustically, called Angle an extremist, allied to special interest groups which planned on jettisoning government agencies relied on by millions in Nevada.
"We can't trust you with taxes," Angel said near the end of the debate, revisiting an accusation made earlier on in the night that Reid had voted 300 times to raise taxes in the state. Reid countered that he had, in fact, voted for lowered taxes for the majority of Americans over his last two years in office, as well as voting eight times to reduce the tax burden on small businesses.
Reid later went on the attack as well, saying that Angle planned to privatize he Veterans Administration, which he said “I worked hard on” to make the facility available to the near 250,000 veterans in the state.
He also noted Angle’s criticism of health insurance being under a federal mandate. "Insurance companies don't do things out of the goodness of their heart; they do it because of the profit motive,” he said, stating that coverage for mammograms, and treatment for autism needs to would happen only if ‘forced’ onto the insurance companies by the government.
The debate happened just before early voting begins this weekend. Polls show an extremely tight race between the didactically opposed pair.
