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The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza highlights another poll showing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to be no shoo-in for re-election in 2010:
Just 38 percent of voters had a favorable opinion of Reid as compared to 50 percent who had an unfavorable opinion in a Mason-Dixon poll conducted for the Las Vegas Review Journal.
Asked whether they were planning to vote to reelect Reid next fall or would vote to replace him, 35 percent said they would cast a vote for Reid while 45 percent said they planned to replace him. Another 17 percent said they would consider replacing Reid.
Of course, for these numbers to mean anything the Republicans first must recruit a credible challenger capable of beating Reid. Rep. Dean Heller is a possibility, but he is not well known statewide. Reid was nearly defeated in 1998 by John Ensign, the Republican who now holds Nevada's other Senate seat, and Republicans sore about the strong 2008 Democratic challenge to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell wouldn't mind having Reid join the ranks of Tom Daschle.
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John G| 5.19.09 @ 12:54PM
Indeed, Reid is in a vulnerable position.
Unfortunately for the GOP, their party is on life-support right now, the RNC president might as well be a cardboard cut-out and doesn't really stand for anything signficant, the NRSC supports Democrat-lite candidates (ie moderates) and/or party defectors, and the overall party is rudderless and devoid of any leadership. A signficant vacuum.
Reid has been vulnerable for some time now, and the GOP has yet to put up a decent candidate out there, you know, one without an indictment or criminal background. Time is of the essence, and the GOP is blowing it out the door.
jim rice| 5.20.09 @ 12:10AM
well said, John G.
Bill Badman| 5.20.09 @ 6:10AM
Hmmm...Weak? reid?
Not weak, gone! We are going to Tea Party this loser. For sure. And some others. Bill Badman
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So John G, are you saying that only you democrats are holy? I beg to differ. Democrats have a few skeletons in their closets too. Just to name one; do you think that a two month, suspended sentence was sufficient for Ted Kennedy, for the wrongful death of Mary Jo Kopechne? He left the scene of a fatality in which he was driving. It was called an accident, but if he was taking her where he said he was, why were they even on that bridge? It wasn’t on the way to their supposed destination. Did he even attempt to save her? If he wasn’t man enough to save her himself, why didn’t he seek help immediately? It’s possible that Mary Jo might have found an air pocket inside the car and could have survived until someone was able to rescue her. He just left her to die! That sounds like a real democrat hero to me!
Which is worse; for the RNC president to not stand for anything significant, (in your views) or for the president of the United States to be pushing as hard as he is for so many anti-American, anti-life and anti-decency programs? I couldn’t stomach Bill Clinton, but Obama is making him look like a real solid citizen!
You might like to get your own “mafia meisters” in line before you pick on the republicans.
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