• No surprise here: The Sharron Angle campaign is preparing to announce an endorsement from Sarah Palin. A pundit friend privately noted that adding Palin to the equation won’t render any new votes for Angle because Nevada’s Republicans as a whole are quite eager to vote out Harry Reid. But in a game of inches, which this race looks to be, the Republicans must naturally do all they can to draw voter enthusiasm and make the electoral algebra work out.
  • Besides, Nevada is an early-caucus, battleground state for the next presidential election, so Palin’s presence here may be good politics for those looking ahead to 2012.
  • The Harry Reid campaign, having hammered Angle hard on rhetoric since the primary, says it will now turn to an exploration of her state legislative voting record. Yesterday’s new ad made it pretty clear Team Reid thinks she is vulnerable with female voters and is going to try to siphon support from her there.
  • Just in case you needed to be told: Harry Reid is the senator who has received the most lobby money this cycle (just over one half million dollars).
  • Brent Budowsky totally hearts Harry Reid anyway.
  • And Lady Gaga wants you to call Reid about Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell legislation. Here’s her Tweet.
  • Joe Heck is going to be in Washington raising money next week. Good timing, because Hotline reports Dina Titus will be getting a big boost from the DCCC which is planning to invest $1.4 million in advertising in NV-3 starting October 5. The NRCC has also placed a large ad buy of $900K.