A new poll out from the Las Vegas Review-Journal puts Harry Reid in a dead heat against the GOP field, a huge shift from just a few months ago when he trailed by as many as thirteen points. Reid is now within 3 points of each of the potential GOP candidates, trailing two of them and leading the third.
According to the poll, Chicken Sue Lowden leads Reid by three, 42%-39% -- a huge drop from February when she led by a 52%-39% margin. Danny Tarkanian now leads 42%-41%, also a huge drop from his 51%-40% lead in February. And most shocking of all: Reid actually leads Sharron "Tea" Angle, 42%-39%. In February, Reid trailed 44%-42%.
The poll also shows a close GOP primary (scheduled for June 8), with Lowden at 30%, Angle at 29%, and Tarkanian at 23%. That's a big shift from February, when Lowden had 47%, Angle 8%, and Tarkanian 28%. Earlier this month, Lowden was at 30%, Angle 25%, and Tarkanian 22%.
For what it's worth, even though Reid fares better against Angle than Lowden in this poll, I don't think it's evidence that Lowden is a stronger candidate for November. Angle clearly has embraced more wingnutty positions than Lowden, but Lowden has demonstrated her political incompetence time after time. That's not something likely to show up in May polling, but I find it hard to imagine she could manage to pull off a victorious U.S. Senate campaign. She's too much of a gaffe machine.