Angle rewrites policy positions in NV race - a new angle for candidate off on a tangent

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from Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/12/AR2010101202221.html



LAS VEGAS -- Republican U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle is distancing herself from an unusual foe - her own words.

In recent weeks, Angle repeatedly has claimed that she never vowed to end Social Security or federal benefits for veterans. Democrats have widely circulated recordings of her making those very points in early campaign stops.

The shift illuminates Angle's ongoing evolution (magical transformation__JW) from a hard-right state legislator to a slightly mellower national candidate amid attacks from Democrats and the occasional Republican leader.

Her critics have admonished her for, among other things, deeming a BP fund of oil spill victims a "slush fund;" suggesting tea party followers will resort to "Second Amendment remedies" if Washington is not reformed; concluding that unemployment benefits have "spoiled our citizenry;" and blasting Democrats for pushing public benefits to "make government our God."

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