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Following Tea Party-backed candidate Sharron Angle’s come-from-nowhere win in Nevada’s Republican primary, the conservative hopeful has found herself trekking along a rocky road in her quest to unseat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

The Christian Science Monitor reports on the state of the race as it stood just seven weeks ago:

Nevadans were down on their senior senator, according to the polls. The “tea party” movement was zeroing in on him as representative of all that’s wrong with big-government politics back in Washington. And it looked like any of his likely GOP opponents could beat the four-term incumbent in November.

Shortly after Nevada Republicans chose former state assemblywoman Sharron Angle to run against Reid, the beleaguered Democrat was trailing his opponent by 11 percentage points in a Rasmussen Reports poll of likely Nevada voters.

But the latest numbers to come out on the contentious Senate match-up paint a dramatically different picture.

A survey from Rasmussen released this week shows Reid maintaining a 2-point lead over Angle. A recent Mason-Dixon poll revealed the ranking Democrat to be ahead of the GOP hopeful by an even wider 7-point margin.

Angle herself has acknowledged that since the primary, her campaign hasn’t exactly been smooth sailing.

“We’re going to have to roller coaster for a while,” the Senate hopeful reportedly told her staff as the general election match-up got underway. “You saw it during the primary. We were up, we were down. But we always knew that it would all come together at the right time. And it did. And that’s what we’re looking forward to. . . . Don’t lose your nerve in the beginning here, because we’ve got a pretty long road.”

National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Sen. John Cornyn predicted it would “take a few weeks” to work out the kinks in Angle’s political operation after she secured the GOP nomination. But when asked to reevaluate the conservative candidate’s campaign over a month later, the Texas Senator said, “We continue to work with them, but it’s a work in progress.”

So, how did Angle manage to lose an 11-point lead in just seven weeks?

Below, a slideshow highlighting some of the controversies and gaffes that may shed light on the factors behind the downward spiral of the conservative contender’s campaign:

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Remember that suburban Chicago-based Americans for Truth About Homosexuality setting about a youth-oriented “Truth Academy” to “train ‘pro-family’ advocates how to counter so-called ‘homosexual misinformation?’” Well, it appears plans are still moving forward for the Southern Poverty Law Center-designated hate group’s event, to be held Aug. 5-7 at the Christian Liberty Academy in Arlington Heights.

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The Tea Party represents the Christian, patriotic, flag waving, freedom loving, decent citizens that only want small government, right? They’ve told us the racist signs are held by only one or two people in the crowd. Hardly. This is the Tea Party right here….

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If you like good ol’ boys and country music, you should be in for a treat in this weekend’s “Leverage.” Christian Kane, who hails from Norman, OK, and is a country music singer himself, plays Eliot on the show. in this week’s episode, Eliot becomes involved in the world of country music. Here’s an update from Christian Kane’s e-mail list:“This week TNT airs a very special episode of LEVERAGE

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The reckoning has arrived for the creator of “The Passion of the Christ,” whose self-destruction parallels the decline of the Christian right.

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Muslims attacked a Christian village in central Nigeria on Saturday, killing eight people with machetes and burning seven houses and a church in fresh religious violence, an army spokesman said.

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STOCKHOLM — Now that’s some vintage bubbly.

Divers have discovered what is thought to be the world’s oldest drinkable champagne in a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea, one of the finders said Saturday. They tasted the one bottle they’ve brought up so far before they even got back to shore.

Diving instructor Christian Ekstrom said the bottles are believed to be from the 1780s and likely were part of a cargo destined for Russia. The nationality of the sunken ship has not yet been determined.

“We brought up the bottle to be able to establish how old the wreck was,” he told The Associated Press. “We didn’t know it would be champagne. We thought it was wine or something.”

Ekstrom said the divers were overjoyed when they popped the cork on their boat after hauling the bubbly from a depth of 200 feet (60 meters).

“It tasted fantastic. It was a very sweet champagne, with a tobacco taste and oak,” Ekstrom said.

The divers discovered the shipwreck Tuesday near the Aland Islands, between Sweden and Finland. About 30 bottles are believed to be aboard the sunken vessel.

Ekstrom said he is confident of the champagne’s age and authenticity, but samples have been sent to laboratories in France for testing. “We’re 98 percent sure already because of the bottle (we found),” he said.

Swedish wine expert Carl-Jan Granqvist said each bottle could fetch euro50,000 ($68,000) if the corks are intact and the sparkling drink is genuine and drinkable.

“If this is true, it is totally unique,” said Granqvist, one of the experts contacted by Ekstrom and his team. “I don’t know of any other (drinkable) bottle this old. I’ve never even heard of it.”

Granqvist said he had seen pictures of the bottle, and it had languished in near-perfect storage conditions – in the dark at a constant cold temperature.

“If it’s the right atmosphere outside, and inside the bottle the cork is kept dry in the middle; it keeps itself,” he said.

According to French champagne house Perrier-Jouet, a subsidiary of Pernod Ricard, their vintage from 1825 is the oldest recorded champagne still in existence.

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