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Reid Ad Hits Angle On Social Security, Medicare — And Scientology (VIDEO)

Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) and NV-SEN candidate Sharron Angle (R)

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has a new ad attacking his Republican opponent Sharron Angle, hammering her on the evergreen Democratic issue of Social Security — and resurrecting an attack against Angle from during the Republican primary, over possible ties to Scientology.

An excerpt is show of Angle saying: “We need to phase Medicare and Social Security out.”

“She’d cut benefits for everyone coming into the system,” the announcer says. “That’s Sharron Angle. First a Scientology plan to give massages to prisoners — now she wants to get rid of Medicare and Social Security. What’s next?”

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