• Harry Reid,  Polling

    Poll Watch: Nevada Democrat Senator Harry Reid Continues to Trail GOP Challengers

    Vice President Joe Biden and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid discuss the recovery act at the University of Nevada in Reno, Friday, Oct. 16, 2009. Biden visited economically troubled Nevada to promote the progress of the federal stimulus program and boost the re-election campaign of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid

    Another poll which looms over the head of Dingy Harry’s re-election prospects.

    Progressive Change Campaign Committee (D) / Research 2000

    10/17-19/09; 600 likely voters, 4% margin of error
    Mode: Live telephone interviews
    (PCCC release)

    Favorable / Unfavorable

    • Harry Reid: 35 / 54

    2010 Senate

    • Tarkanian 46%, Reid 41%
    • Lowden 47%, Reid 42%

    Nevada Republicans have a real opportunity to take this seat away from the Democrats. But, only if they can avoid a costly and divisive primary between Tarkanian and Lowden.


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  • Harry Reid,  Polling

    Poll Watch: Nevada Senator Harry Reid Questionable for Re-Election

    Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., left, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., right, speak outside the West Wing of the White House following a meeting between President Barack Obama and Congressional leadership to discuss Afghanistan and Pakistan in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009

    Stuart Rothenberg has moved Reid’s senate seat to TOSS-UP.

    And, the latest Nevada polls portend problems for Dingy Harry.

    2010 Senate: General Election

    • Tarkanian 48%, Reid 43%
    • Lowden 49%, Reid 39%

    Favorable / Unfavorable

    • Harry Reid: 38 / 50
    • Sue Lowden: 31 / 15
    • Danny Tarkanian: 30 / 11

    Interesting, that over the weekend, Reid and the national Democratic Party were already running ads on Las Vegas television.

    The mood of the Las Vegas regulars at the poker table was not happy though.

    It is the economy and unless it improves dramatically, Harry Reid is gone in 2010.


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  • Harry Reid,  Obamacare

    Harry Reid Protects Nevada from Obamacare – But, Taxes Are Voluntary Anyway

    Jan Helfeld interviews Senator Harry Reid about redistributive taxes. Reid maintains redistributive taxes are not a problem because people are not forced to pay taxes. He says taxation is voluntary…..this is not a joke.

    Nevada Democrat Senator and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid mayassert that taxes are voluntary but he sure knows where his political bread and butter are.

    The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, has secured a special deal protecting his state against the costs of expanding Medicaid under one of the major health care bills moving through Congress.

    Mr. Reid, a Democrat, complained about the impact on Nevada when the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Max Baucus, Democrat of Montana, unveiled his bill on Sept. 16.

    Now Mr. Baucus has modified the bill to spare Nevada and three other states, and Mr. Reid, who faces a potentially difficult race for re-election next year, is taking credit for getting a “major increase” in federal money for his state.

    The Senate bill, like a companion measure in the House, would expand Medicaid to cover childless adults, parents and other people with incomes less than 133 percent of the poverty level, or $29,327 for a family of four. The federal government would pay most of the new costs — anywhere from 77 percent to 95 percent, with a higher share in poorer states, in the first five years.

    Under Mr. Baucus’s original proposal, the federal government would have paid 87 percent of the new costs in Nevada. Under the modified version, the federal government would pay 100 percent of the new costs for the first five years. Severe financial problems have prompted Nevada and other states to cut spending and furlough workers, and some states have even considered releasing prison inmates to save money.

    So, in other words, Californians who are paying all of those “volunteer taxes” will subsidize Nevada’s Medicaid health care expansion – which could double.

    And, why?

    Because Democrat Dear Leader Dingy Harry Reid is running for re-election, is in a tight race and needs to deliver “the goods” for Nevada voters.

    Remember, California voters, Senator Reid says these taxes are “voluntary.”


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  • Harry Reid,  Obamacare

    Obamacare: Harry Reid Says One Thing to National Press and Then Another To Nevada

    Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Children’s Health Fund co-founder and singer/songwriter Paul Simon take part in a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009, to raise awareness of the children who will benefit from President Obama’s proposed health care plan

    Who is Harry Reid trying to fool?

    This is Harry Reid to the national press corps:

    I appreciate Chairman Baucus’ hard work over the past several months.  His proposal is another important piece to the puzzle and brings us a step closer to having a comprehensive health insurance reform bill on the Senate floor.  There will be a healthy and vigorous debate in the Finance Committee as Senators work to strengthen this proposal.  I look forward to working with Chairman Baucus and Senator Dodd as well as the White House in the coming weeks to forge a final Senate bill that lowers costs, improves quality, preserves choice and creates competition.

    Here is Dingy Harry addressing the Nevada press:

    Nevada Senator Harry Reid released the following statement regarding the draft health insurance reform proposal released by the Senate Finance Committee chairman this morning.  The proposal in its current form would require Nevada to increase Medicaid spending by more than five percent at a time when the state’s budget is suffering.  Committee Chair, Sen. Max Baucus of Montana committed to Reid that the formula will be changed before the bill is marked up in committee.

    “While this draft bill is a good starting point, it needs improvement before it will work for Nevada.  During this time of economic crisis, our state cannot afford to shoulder the second highest increase in Medicaid funding.  I spoke to the Chair of the Finance Committee and he assured me that this bill will be improved for Nevada before he takes it to the committee for final mark-up next week.  Let me be very clear, I will not bring a health insurance reform bill to the Senate floor that is not good for Nevada.”

    Good ol’ Harry Reid, running for re-election trying to have it BOTH ways.

    Standard.


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  • Harry Reid,  Polling

    Latest Poll Has Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid Trailing Both Republican Challengers

    Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada takes part in a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, September 10, 2009

    The latest Rasmussen poll is not kind to Dingy Harry Reid of Nevada.

    In what is currently a difficult political climate for Democrats, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid trails two potential Republican challengers seeking to unseat him as he faces reelection next year in Nevada.

    The first Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of the 2010 race shows Sue Lowden beating Reid by 10 percentage points, 50% to 40%. Lowden is chairwoman of the Nevada Republican Party and the preferred candidate of the Republican party establishment.

    GOP hopeful Danny Tarkanian beats Reid by seven points, 50% to 43%. Tarkanian is a former basketball player for the University of Nevada-Las Vegas and the son of a legendary college basketball coach.

    The economic and business climate is dismal in Nevada. Unless the economy turns around quickly, Harry Reid will be easily defeated in November 2010.


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  • Harry Reid

    Why Is Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid Sending Staffers to Trail and Videotape the Tea Party Express?

    Susan Thomas of Reno, NV., lower left, raises her arm during a ‘Tea Party Express’ rally Monday, Aug. 31, 2009, in Las Vegas. The national bus tour will host a series of rallies across the United States protesting what they characterize as big government, as they make their way to Washington, D.C.

    Just askin’

    As the Tea Party Express rolls out of Las Vegas, there is at least one person who may be glad to see it go: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

    “There’s been kind of an underground gathering of opponents of Harry Reid,” said Mark Williams, one of the organizers of the cross country conservative caravan that is making its way towards Washington.

    Williams says that dislike of the Nevada Democrat is one of the key factors that is driving people to come out to the five Nevada stops on the tour. With Reid not being up for election until 2010, Williams says people are using the tea parties to come together and vent their frustration with the state’s senior senator.

    Protesters at a tea party event in Sparks, Nevada drew a rather unflattering caricature of the senator and taped it to the door of a port-a-pottie.

    In Winnemucca, Nevada Deborah Johns, another tour organizer, won big applause when she brought up Reid.

    “It’s time to let Harry Reid know it’s time to go back to searchlight,” she said, referring to Reid’s hometown in Nevada. “When he gets there the lights are going to be out.”

    Meanwhile, Reid’s office sent a young staffer, Sean Kennedy, on the road to trail the caravan as it made its way across the Silver State. He has videotaped each event.


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    Harry Reid: Ted Kennedy’s Death is Going to Help Us

    On day three of the feud between Democrat Senate Majority Leader Reid and Nevada’s largest newspaper, Sherman Frederick appears on Fox to discuss Reid’s comment about the newspaper going out of business

    First, it was Dingy Harry Reid wishing Nevada’s largest newspaper would go out of business. Now, he is channeling Ted Kennedy’s death to help who – US.

    Does he mean the Democrats? Or President Obama’s health care reforms?

    I suppose it doesn’t much matter and read the entire interview here.

    Q: Do you think this recess has helped or hurt efforts to get a health care reform bill passed

    A: Oh I think it’s helped. For one thing I think the American people have seen the wrongness of trying to interrupt meetings and yell and scream at people. That’s lost a lot of its pizzazz. I think its given time for members to contemplate what’s important. We can talk to our constituents. I’ve traveled the state talking to people. I think they’ve been very constructive meetings.

    Q: How will U.S. Sen. (Edward) Kennedy’s death affect things?

    A: I think it’s going to help us. He hasn’t been around for some time. We’re going to have a new chairman of that committee, it’ll be, I don’t know for sure, but I think Sen. (Chris) Dodd, (D-Conn.). He has a right to take it. Either him or (U.S. Sen. Tom) Harkin, (D-Iowa), whichever one wants it can have it. I think he (Kennedy) will be a help. He’s an inspiration for us. That was the issue of his life and he didn’t get it done.

    The entire interview is from a cranky, old man who should be retired out of office by Nevada voters next year.


  • Harry Reid

    Harry Reid: “I Hope You Go Out of Business”

    Political Cartoon by Michael Ramirez

    Nevada Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is behind in the polls and now is throwing his political weight around.

    We’re still here doing what we do for the people of Las Vegas and Nevada. So, let me assure you, if we weathered all of that, we can damn sure outlast the bully threats of Sen. Harry Reid.

    On Wednesday, before he addressed a Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce luncheon, Reid joined the chamber’s board members for a meet-‘n’-greet and a photo. One of the last in line was the Review-Journal’s director of advertising, Bob Brown, a hard-working Nevadan who toils every day on behalf of advertisers. He has nothing to do with news coverage or the opinion pages of the Review-Journal.

    Yet, as Bob shook hands with our senior U.S. senator in what should have been nothing but a gracious business setting, Reid said: “I hope you go out of business.”

    Later, in his public speech, Reid said he wanted to let everyone know that he wants the Review-Journal to continue selling advertising because the Las Vegas Sun is delivered inside the Review-Journal.

    Such behavior cannot go unchallenged.

    You could call Reid’s remark ugly and be right. It certainly was boorish. Asinine? That goes without saying.

    But to fully capture the magnitude of Reid’s remark (and to stop him from doing the same thing to others) it must be called what it was — a full-on threat perpetrated by a bully who has forgotten that he was elected to office to protect Nevadans, not sound like he’s shaking them down.

    No citizen should expect this kind of behavior from a U.S. senator. It is certainly not becoming of a man who is the majority leader in the U.S. Senate. And it absolutely is not what anyone would expect from a man who now asks Nevadans to send him back to the Senate for a fifth term.

    If he thinks he can push the state’s largest newspaper around by exacting some kind of economic punishment in retaliation for not seeing eye to eye with him on matters of politics, I can only imagine how he pressures businesses and individuals who don’t have the wherewithal of the Review-Journal.

    Flap wonders if the voters of Nevada also remember what Dingy Harry Reid said about the Iraq War?

    Reid does not deserve re-election.


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  • Harry Reid,  Polling

    Poll Watch: Nevada Senator Harry Reid in Re-Election Jeopardy

    harryreidsbrain Poll Watch: Nevada Senator Harry Reid In Re-Election Trouble

    Political Cartoon by Michael Ramirez

    Dingy Harry Reid, Democrat Senate Majority Leader is behind to both possible GOP candidates for Nevada United States Senate.

    It’s the highest stakes ever for a Nevada election, and former boxer Sen. Harry Reid is on the ropes early. Either Republican Danny Tarkanian or Sue Lowden would knock out Reid in a general election, according to a recent poll of Nevada voters.

    The results suggest the Democratic Senate majority leader will have to punch hard and often in order to retain his position as the most accomplished politician in state history, in terms of job status.

    Nevadans favored Tarkanian over Reid 49 percent to 38 percent and Lowden over Reid 45 percent to 40 percent, according to the poll.

    Reid’s status makes him an icon of the Democratic Party and ties him to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and President Barack Obama, both of whom are losing ground among centrist and right-leaning voters in the country.

    The economy in Las Vegas sucks and the Nevada unemployment rate is higher than California’s. Nevada voters are looking for a change – and it is NOT Harry Reid.

    Looks like the GOP will try to do the same to Dingy Harry as they did to Tom Daschle.

    The quicker for Nevada, the better. Then, the GOP can replace John Ensign in 2012.


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  • Barack Obama,  Day By Day,  Harry Reid,  Nancy Pelosi,  Shelia Jackson Lee

    Day By Day by Chris Muir August 14, 2009 – Answer the Call

    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    President Obama and Congressional Democrats who support Obamacare, Chris, have already MISSED the call. The Democrats have massive, filibuster-proof majorities in the U.S. Senate. So, why are they waiting for the minority Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee?

    Why are they wasting your time with town hall meetings when the Congressional Leadership have already made up their minds to RAM the socialistic Obamacare through?

    Answer: Political Cover

    So, Democrat POLS like Nancy Pelosi (Nazis), Harry Reid (Evil Mongers) and Shelia Jackson Lee (imposter astroturfe fake physicians and ignore via cell phone) will continue their conduct until the White House exerts some damage control.

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