Politics

The Gun-Control Fight Harry Reid Can’t Win

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Balancing Obama, the NRA, and shaky Dems, Reid’s in an impossible position, sources tell David Freedlander.

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In 2010 Harry Reid was facing perhaps the toughest campaign of his five-decade political career. The Senate majority leader has never had particularly high approval ratings back home in Nevada, and Republicans made clear that sending him back to his hometown of Searchlight was their top priority, just as the...

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