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Thin Reid to Lean On

Harry Reid trails potential Republican challenger Sue Lowden by a 6-point margin, 48 percent to 42 percent, according to a poll that was published in today's Las Vegas Review-Journal. Lowden, the chairwoman of the Nevada Republican Party, hasn't announced she's running, but the newspaper reports that her supporters are using the polling results as part of efforts convince her to throw her hat in the ring. In other bad news for Reid, the poll found that only 39 percent of respondents had a favorable view of Reid, and just 34 percent said they would vote for him to be re-elected. Todd Vitale, who took the poll, said, "I've never seen an incumbent with numbers this bad who hadn't had some scandal."

(Via Jim Geraghty)

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Joseph Brown| 8.11.09 @ 10:57AM

Don't get your hopes up. For some reason people like dirty Harry always seem to pull a hat trick.
I knida thought his rail train from Disneyland to LV would have done it, but that one seems to have quieted down. For now.

Tim| 8.11.09 @ 11:05AM

Reid is wrecked!

"Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,
Whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads.
And recks not his own rede. "

- Hamlet, scene iii.Act i

mbs| 8.11.09 @ 11:36AM

I suspect whether or not he gets reelected will depend on how much taxpayer money he can funnel to organizations like ACORN.

Missy| 8.11.09 @ 12:37PM

For some reason? Media acquiescence and ACORN are two I can think of off the top of my head.

Don| 8.11.09 @ 2:10PM

How can there be 34% of those polled that would re-elect this weasel to the Senate? Reid is a disgrace to this nation.

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