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A New Senate Majority Leader

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Seems pretty certain next year, one way or the other:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid attracts just 39% to 42% of the Nevada vote when matched against three Republican opponents. Two of his potential opponents now top the 50% level of support.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey in the state also shows that 62% of Nevada’s voters support repealing the recently passed health care law. That’s a bit higher than support for repeal nationally.

Fifty-seven percent (57%) in Nevada say the new law will be bad for the country.

The new numbers show Reid trailing ex-GOP Chairman Sue Lowden 54% to 39%. Only four percent (4%) would prefer some other candidate while two percent (2%) are not sure.

Either the Dems will replace him (Durbin?) or the Republicans will take over. You have to think that in an environment in which a majority leader loses as badly as these polls indicate, the latter is not at all unlikely.

And I wonder how different history would have been if Reid hadn’t squeaked by a few years ago, due to the Libertarian vote in Nevada?

3 thoughts on “A New Senate Majority Leader”

  2. Some Democrat running for the Senate in 2010 announced a few months back that if elected he (she?) wouldn’t be taking marching orders from Harry Reid.

    Even then I thought that was an almost criminally easy promise to make.

  3. It’s true: if only the Republicans had voted sensibly for the Libertarian, Reid wouldn’t be a problem. Rhinos will be rhinos.

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