Reid on Rocky Ground
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid woke up to some unfortunate news in the Las Vegas Review Journal this morning. In a poll conducted by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research, 45% of Nevadans said they would vote to replace him in 2010, 17% said they would consider a different candidate and only a third would opt to re-elect him. Just 38% had a favorable view of Reid, while half of those polled had an unfavorable view. The paper notes that Reid's approval ratings have declined since he become the leader of his party in the Senate in 2004. That's not entirely unusual though, just ask Tom Daschle.
Obama on the other hand, is polling relatively well in Nevada: 55% view him favorably and 30% had an unfavorable view. The remainder were neutral on the President. Reid's electoral fortunes may rest on Obama's popularity to some degree - everyone is eager to figure out just how long those coat-tails are. But the GOP's meandering is also aiding the Majority Leader. A strong Republican challenger for Reid's seat is yet to emerge.
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Katie received her Master of Public Policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where she was the 2005 Menzies Scholar. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Queensland and completed her honors thesis on media representations of the East Timor conflict at the University of Melbourne. She was born and raised in Brisbane, Australia.
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