Harry Reid

A newspaper poll says Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid faces formidable opposition next year when he seeks a fifth term. A survey of 400 registered voters for the Las Vegas Review-Journal released Sunday paints the Democratic incumbent as an underdog when matched against either of two possible Republicans rivals in the election. The poll, taken last week by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research Inc., shows Reid lagging by as many as 11 percentage points against Danny Tarkanian. He had 49 percent to Reid's 38 percent. Tarkanian is a real estate professional and former UNLV basketball player. A separate matchup gave Nevada Republican chairman Sue Lowden ... Read Full Story

Let us turn our attention today from the train wreck unfolding in Carson City to another engine that has run off the tracks: The Republican Party’s effort to end the career of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. The most damaging line to the GOP about Reid’s 2010 prospects came not from any liberal media types here but in the nationally respected Politico newspaper last week, in a piece that also appeared in Thursday’s Las Vegas Sun. “Few Republicans will say so publicly, but it’s increasingly looking like Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is going to get a pass for reelection in 2010,” Alex ... Read Full Story

A Politician Can Spin Anything! The following is a story about the great-great uncle of Senator Harry Reid. A rose by any other name still smells as sweet. Judy Wallman, a professional genealogy researcher in southern California, was doing some personal work on her own family tree. She discovered that Congressman Harry Reid's great-great uncle, Remus Reid, was hanged for horse stealing and train robbery in Montana in 1889. Both Judy and Harry Reid share this common ancestor. The only known photograph of Remus shows him standing on the gallows in Montana territory: On the back of the picture Judy obtained during her research ... Read Full Story

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says his party's caucus has "absolute unity" on the need to pass health care reform this year. The Nevadan, joined by other lawmakers, spoke to reporters Tuesday afternoon on a White House driveway after Senate Democrats met over lunch with President Barack Obama. Reid said Democrats wants to produce a bipartisan bill "if there's any way humanly possible." Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus said, "The American people want us to work together." Reid and Baucus, a Montana Democrat, expressed confidence that health care legislation would get done by year's end. Extending health insurance to the uncovered and reining in ... Read Full Story

With friends like these .. The Huffi ngton Post, a leftist blog, had a vicious piece about Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid . An excerpt from Bob Cesca : “ For too many years with Harry Reid at the helm, we’ve been watching as this ineffectual mope skulks his way around the Hill .. Comparing Harry Reid to the cartoon character Droopy Dog would be both a compliment to Reid and very much an insult to Droopy who, while being a forlorn slow-talker, was actually quite savvy and speedy for a canine with a sluggish metabolism. Harry Reid, on the other hand, is only ... Read Full Story