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Does Reid Believe Most Nevadans Would Have Supported Slavery?

By Philip Klein on 12.7.09 @ 3:00PM

As I noted earlier, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid compared opponents of his health care bill to those who supported maintaining the institution of slavery. Yet by making such a statement, Reid was smearing not only his Republican Senate colleagues, but a majority of his constituents, according to a new Mason-Dixon poll conducted for the Las Vegas Review-Journal:

The telephone poll of 625 registered voters found that 53 percent of Nevadans oppose the president's attempt to provide a remedy for problems in the nation's health care system. Support for the plan is at 39 percent.

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Pete| 12.7.09 @ 3:32PM

Do you think he cares? Like all liberal elitists, he believes that he is better than his subjects, and out of the goodness of is heart is striving to save them from themselves. What a guy!

Harry the Mortician| 12.7.09 @ 4:27PM

Its what I do. Deal with it, wing nuts.

Oldefarte| 12.7.09 @ 5:02PM

Voters need to send Reid and Dodd in the same direction as Dashle; unfortionately, Pilosi is in such a liberal California district, she'd only be replaced by possibly Fidel Castro!!!!

Dixie Pixie| 12.7.09 @ 7:17PM

FYI
In 1818 the US House of Representatives voted to abolish slavery throughout the United States.
The Democratic Party rooted in the southern states prevailed and slavery continued.

Note this was purely a Federalist vs Democratic Party fight. The Republican Party would not exist for decades. Is it any wonder the current Democratic Party would try to cover up their history of causing many of the past political horrors.

Harry Reid must think we are beyond stupid if he thinks the conservatives have forgotten the Democratic Party historical support for slavery.

Derek Leaberry| 12.8.09 @ 8:18AM

Don't forget, DixiePixie, that the modern Republican party owes its position and several presidential victories to conservative Democrats who switched parties to the Republican Party. The Democratic Party, and not the Republican Party, was the more conservative party, at least until 1896. And the Federalist Party was the party of big government and plutocracy.

bluecollarbytes| 12.8.09 @ 9:20AM

Credit to Rush Limbaugh for revealing this Harry Reid to be a small bitter man early on some years ago, before Reid started his opening his yap, confirming the worst.

That's not to say Reid doesn't fully represent the current Democrat mindset.

Derek Leaberry| 12.8.09 @ 10:45AM

One of the very good things about an Obama presidency is that we now have the chance of flushing Congress of cretins like Harry Reid, Chris Dodd, Blanche Lincoln, Arlen Specter, Barbara Boxer and Patty Murray. A re-elected Obama promises even better dividends. The landslide of 2014 may get ugly for the Democrats.