Another Poll Shows Reid In Trouble, Trailing Republicans For 2010 Race

[babylonsister]

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Another Poll Shows Reid Trailing Republicans For 2010 Race
Eric Kleefeld | September 3, 2009, 2:50PM


A new Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll gives further confirmation that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is in serious trouble headed into his 2010 re-election campaign, with him trailing both potential Republican opponents.

Against former UNLV basketball player Danny Tarkanian, who has previously run unsuccessful campaigns for the state Senate for Nevada Secretary of State, Reid trails by 45%-40%. Against state GOP chair Sue Lowden, Reid is behind 44%-41%. These results are within the ±4% margin of error, but are hardly encouraging.

A Mason-Dixon poll from a week and a half ago also showed Reid trailing Tarkanian and Lowden, by greater margins than this survey does.

[Old Codger]

1. Reid

Is a spineless wimp and has no business in there at all to say nothing of in any leadership role

[gratuitous]

2. Harry Reid could be senator for life

All he has to do is legislate like a Democrat running the majority party caucus of the Senate. That would be in place of what he's doing now.

[LiberalAndProud]

11. Is that true in Nevada?

It wouldn't be the case in Nebraska, sadly.

[d_b]

3. bout time

I'm sure he'll miss the Republican golden showers.

[lebkuchen]

4. How much dem money will be poured into this campaign?

Is there no other democratic who can run successfully in NV, such as one that doesn't blow with the wind?

[AndyA]

5. It figures. He isn't doing what he was elected to do, and he has no

problem with bending over backwards to accommodate the GOP. Barney Fife has more spine than Reid does, and while I certainly don't enjoy hearing a Democrat is running behind a Republican, it makes sense because Reid doesn't act like a Democrat most of the time.

Is his area mostly Republican? Does he have to be "middle of the road" to get their votes? If so, he's screwed up twice, since he's turned off his constituents as well as the progressives who might have fought and donated to keep him in office, had he performed better the past few years.

Reid is absolutely the wrong Democrat to be the Senate Leader.

[Individualist]

6. Not surprising

When the race is between a republican with an R after his name and a republican with a D after his name, the voters will go for the R.

[DJ13]

13. I wish our party understood that

It was, after all, the real reason the Democrats whipped the GOP in 2006 and 2008.

If people had wanted Republicans to continue sucking up to the corporations they would have voted for Republicans.

[WeDidIt]

7. Ya know, if a Republican defeats him and the Dems keep the Senate

that would mean there would be a new Senate Majority leader for the Democrats on January 3, 2011.

Just sayin' that I won't cry if he happens to lose.

[LiberalAndProud]

8. This is disheartening. Don't these polls keep Reid on a

conservative course? Will losing this seat harm us or help us? I'd wish we had a safe-seat Democrat in the leadership role.

[WeDidIt]

10. Like I sid above, if he loses

we get a new leader.

[laughingliberal]

9. He is in trouble

I live in Nevada and he is not popular here right now. It is a fairly conservative state to begin with and now the Democrats are mad about his spinelessness. That said, he has been in tight races before and pulled it off. And he has a huge war chest going in. I just think we need a new Senate leader.

[WeDidIt]

14. I'm VERY glad I don't live in Nevada

Not that Nevada isn't a beautiful state with wonderful people.

It's just that if I lived there I would be sorely tempted to vote for the Republican so the Senate Dems have no choice but to put in a new leader.

[LiberalAndProud]

17. I'd like a change in leadership too. I wish that didn't have to

cost a Democratic rep, though.

[Libertas1776]

12. If a Republican replaces

him, will we really notice the difference?

[gratuitous]

15. The Senate would get a new Majority Leader

So, yeah, there'd be a difference.

[truebrit71]

16. No...except the Dems will get a new Majority leader...Sen Feingold anyone?

...

[Individualist]

18. That would be a vast improvement.

[byebyegop]

19. Here you all go with the whining again!

Polls mean nothing right now. When the job outlook improves soon (and it WILL) so will the poll numbers. You can bank on it!

Reid's job is to get Democratic Bills passed in the Senate. Name ONE failed attempt to pass a bill?

Yea, he is not a spittle spewing red faced confronter like oh I don't know, maybe every Republikkkan in the senate but I prefer his style to confrontational.

[wisteria]

20. Polls mean very little right now and a lot of Dem's are taking a hit because of health care reform.

[hfojvt]

21. wow, there's a lot of hostility on this thread

It seems like not that long ago that Reid was the hero after replacing the hapless Daschle. Nevada is certainly bluer that South Dakota which voted for McCain by 53-45. Nevada voted for Obama by 55-43 which makes it bluer than Minnesota or Iowa or Pennsylvania. Of course, in 2004, Nevada went for Bush 50.5-48 as it did in 2000 by 49.5-46. So there is some question of whether we can keep it blue.