BREAKING: Angle Wins in Nevada

Former Assemblywoman and Tea Party favorite Sharron Angle (R) won the GOP nomination to take on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D) tonight.

With 59 percent of precincts reporting, Angle leads with 39%, while former state GOP chair Sue Lowden (R) has 28%. Las Vegas businessman Danny Tarkanian (R) is in third with 23%.

Angle surged late in the race as Lowden's campaign imploded after a series of gaffes and Tarkanian's candidacy failed to catch on.

Conventional wisdom is that Angle would be the weakest general election candidate of the three given her extreme conservative views. She supports abolishing the federal income tax, completely privatizing Social Security, abolishing the education and energy departments, and pulling the U.S. out of the United Nations, among other radical initiatives.

Even though Reid is one of the least popular incumbents in the country and his campaign was left for dead mere weeks ago, his campaign thinks that Angle's victory could give them a new lease on life. They believe that once the rest of Nevada voters come to realize just what Angle stands for, they will decide to reconsider voting for Reid (as the lesser of two evils).

This race is sure to dominate headlines from now until November. Just imagine: embattled Senate Majority Leader vs. Tea Partier. The media's going to have a field day with this one.