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)
