Reid Wins Re-Election in Nevada

WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid defeated Tea Party challenger Sharron Angle in the Nevada Senate race, the

Associated Press

reports.

Reid's victory didn't come easily.

At mid-year, Reid appeared headed for defeat as Nevada suffered with the nation's worst unemployment, foreclosure and bankruptcy rates. But he told voters that no one could match his clout on Capitol Hill, and warned that Angle would usher in an era in which Social Security and Medicare would be on the chopping block,

AP

reports.

Reid promised to return the state to prosperity, and he depicted Angle as a fringe conservative whose policies would hurt Nevada families.

An Angle win would have made her Nevada's first woman senator and earned Reid the indignity of becoming the first Senate majority leader to lose re-election since Arizona's Ernest W. McFarland in 1952,

AP

reports.

Reid's win was a surprise in a race where a succession of polls showed a dead heat and he acknowledged he was in trouble.

This article was written by a staff member of TheStreet.