The Nevada plan: Reintroduce Reid

[Barack_America]

From Politico:

The Nevada plan: Reintroduce Reid

...Harry Reid’s power is the stuff of legend in Nevada. But as the Senate majority leader prepares for his 2010 reelection run, voters back home are beginning to ask what’s in it for them.

Nevada’s unemployment rate is 12.7 percent, 3 percentage points higher than the national average. Las Vegas has the highest foreclosure rate of any big city in the country. And economic forecasters are sounding the alarm about an impending crash in the state’s commercial real estate market.

It’s all taking a toll on Reid. While Reid may be at the peak of his power in Washington, a Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll out earlier this month showed him trailing two potential GOP challengers. And Reid’s in-state approval rating stands at just 36 percent — statistically indistinguishable from the 35 percent approval rating of his adulterous Republican colleague, Sen. John Ensign.

Reid dismisses the polling, complaining that reporters “run to it like it’s sugar coming from some place.” But he admits he’s not “boasting” about his own private polls — which Democratic sources say show him with just single-digit leads over his likely GOP challengers — and his campaign is looking like the work of a man running to save his career....


Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/26898.html#ixzz0QcGUbdYn

I wonder how health care reform is polling in Nevada. Can Reid afford to capitulate on health care?

[charlie]

1. "...more familiar with Reid as the fierce partisan who went head to head with George W. Bush"

Now, there's a honking clue the reporter's parroting press releases instead of doing his job.