Sharron Angle and Harry Reid Face-Off in Nevada Debate

(Fox News) Democratic Senator Harry Reid and Republican Sharon Angle faced off in their one and only televised debate Thursday night, both throwing punches.  She said, "Man up Harry Reid."  "You need to understand that we have a problem with Social Security.  The Republican candidate for the Nevada U.S. Senate race was on the offensive throughout the sixty-minute exchange, accusing her opponent, Democrat and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of mismanaging Social Security in Congress.  Angle supports the position of "partial privatization, which Reid opposes. 

The two disagreed on most everything.  Many of the topics of the debate ranged from immigration to Yucca Mountain to education to health care reform.  "My opponent doesn't like any insurance companies to have to do anything."  Reid said of the Tea Party Express backed Angle, "She's against mammograms, colonoscopies, and as we've heard lately insurance companies covering kids who have autism."  Never calling his opponent by name, Reid referred to Angle as "extreme" on more than one occasion.  She hit back hard, ripping on Reid for letting other countries join the federal law suit against Arizona's tough anti-illegal immigration law.  "Senator Reid, you've allowed 11 foreign countries dictate our immigration laws.  That's just nuts." 

Angle attacked Reid on the war, saying he owed an apology to the troops, "When you said the war was lost and General Petraeus was dishonest, you demoralized our troops and endangered them, you need to apologize to them."  Reid was coll in his explanation.  The soft-spoken Senator who has been endorsed by Veterans of Foreign Wars said his statement was that "the war cannot be won just militarily, but economically and diplomatically."  He called the surge "the right thing to do. 

The two were locked in a statistical just before going into the debate.  The Real Clear Politics average had each at 45.4 percent.  Early voting in the silver State starts Saturday.