From a WaPo article on Reid's campaigning in NV:

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It's an interesting article about how Reid and his son, who is running for Governor, are kind of ignoring the other's campaign. But these statements jumped out at me:

<snip> The elder Reid, 70, is fighting for his political survival. He has been a fixture in the state for 40 years, and he's worried that the last thing voters want is a Reid dynasty. He's already badly trailing two Republican candidates who haven't even hit 50 percent in name recognition.<snip>

The Tea Party Express will begin its next tour from his home town of Searchlight, and on Monday, the group went up with $250,000 in "Defeat Harry" ads statewide.<snip>

I hadn't realized that we might lose him from the Senate. The article says the Republicans are licking their chops. Damn.

And just kind of an aside -- I didn't know this about Reid;

His father grew up swimming in a whorehouse pool with parents who drank too much; hitchhiked about 40 miles to a decent high school; became a Mormon; and, with his wife, Landra, raised four boys and one girl, all of whom became lawyers. The son was born in Washington while his father worked as a Capitol Hill cop and went to law school at night. He was 3 when his father won his first political race.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/11/AR2010011104067.html?wpisrc=nl_pmheadline