Poll: 68% of Nevada moderates describe Angle as "extremist"

Sharron Angle is getting 9% with liberals and 80% with conservatives, down just slightly from the 12% and 82% Lowden was getting with those groups. But where Lowden trailed Reid only 51-41 with moderate voters, Angle is facing a 64-28 deficit. The price of nominating Angle for Nevada Republicans appears to be 26 points with moderate voters.

We asked poll respondents whether they considered Angle’s views to be ‘mainstream’ or ‘extremist.’ 68% of moderates put Angle in the ‘extremist’ category to just 22% who called her ‘mainstream.’ That goes a long way toward explaining the drastically changed state of this race.