Harry “Hunker in the Bunker” Reid has a problem looming in 2010. Up for reelection, Harry is trailing – badly – a couple of pretty-well unknown Republican challengers.
It’s the highest stakes ever for a Nevada election, and former boxer Sen. Harry Reid is on the ropes early. Either Republican Danny Tarkanian or Sue Lowden would knock out Reid in a general election, according to a recent poll of Nevada voters.
The results suggest the Democratic Senate majority leader will have to punch hard and often in order to retain his position as the most accomplished politician in state history, in terms of job status.
Nevadans favored Tarkanian over Reid 49 percent to 38 percent and Lowden over Reid 45 percent to 40 percent, according to the poll.
Reid’s status makes him an icon of the Democratic Party and ties him to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and President Barack Obama, both of whom are losing ground among centrist and right-leaning voters in the country.
Actually, I’m fairly sure at this point that being tied to Pelosi and Obama at the next election will ensure that a rock would be able to beat Harry like a rented mule.
On a really, really good day, Harry Reid is inept. I suspect Nevadans are tired of him – and tired of the astronomical unemployment in Nevada. Their Senator is too busy carrying water for Obama and Pelosi to look after his constituents. That is going to cost him.
I don’t agree, Gaius. Obama will come up with some kind of windfall that will save him. Too much is at stake. However if Obama is in the mid to high 30′s, then all bets are off.
Regardless of the Won’s approval ratings, it is ACORN and the Holder Justice Department that may yet save Reid’s bacon. Right now the GOP has gone fetal from all of the criticism from Democrats and the state-run media, so we can expect little help there.
The only way 2010 will be a Republican years is if the public’s revulsion is so great it overwhelms ACORN and the Holder Justice Department. Massive voting fraud can occasionally be overcome by people power. The GOP does itself no favors by nominating candidates like Chris Christie in NJ this year, or Mark Kirk in Illinois, Kay Bailey Hutchison in Texas, Mike Castle in Deleware, and Charlie Crist in Florida next year.
And then there’s The Won’s “no corporate conventions in Vegas” deal-sweetener.
Here in South Dakota we voted out Tom Daschle basically for becoming a “Washingtonian”. Until that election he was overwhelmingly popular.
Nevada must do the same.