The bitter and nasty race for Harry Reid's U.S. Senate seat in Nevada has been a credit union negative on one level: It knocked out all those product ads and positive messaging.

"We're anxious for it to be Wednesday," joked Greg Barnes, senior vice president-marketing at the $718 million Nevada FCU, in commenting on the avalanche of political ads bumping CU ads off billboards and from radio commercials.

It's not just the Reid-Sharron Angle contest but all political ads that have played havoc "with our own plans for business growth and created so much noise" this year, Barnes observed.

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