"Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid accepted free ringside
tickets from the Nevada Athletic Commission to three professional
boxing matches while that state agency was trying to influence him
on federal regulation of boxing," the AP reported yesterday afternoon.
That's not the Minority Leader's only headache: Hotline notes that his poll numbers are
starting to suffer in Nevada: "[Reid's] reputation with home-state
voters as a middle-of-the-road Red-state Dem is eroding. If this
storyline seems familiar, it is. It's exactly what happened to Tom
Daschle."
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