Reid should resign as majority leader

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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/23/reid-trails-gop-challenger-double-digits-new-poll/

Reid Trails GOP Challenger By Double Digits in New Poll



Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is trailing a top Republican challenger by 11 points ahead of next year's election, according to a new poll.

The Mason-Dixon Polling and Research survey, reported Sunday in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, showed GOP candidate Danny Tarkanian leading Reid by 49 percent to 38 percent in Nevada.

Tarkanian is a former basketball player for the University of Nevada-Las Vegas and recently announced his candidacy.

The new poll also showed Sue Lowden, chairwoman of the Nevada Republican Party and a possible candidate, leading Reid by 45 percent to 40 percent.

The sagging numbers come at a time when congressional Democrats are facing tough questions from constituents on their health care reform proposals.

Reid has a lot of time to make up the difference in the polls. But of the top Democrats in Congress, he is perhaps the most vulnerable.

While House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is from a solidly liberal district in California, Nevada is not so dependable for Democrats.

Nevada's other senator, John Ensign, is a Republican. But he's got his own set of problems, after admitting an affair with a former staff member.

The new poll showed 37 percent of voters would vote against him, while 30 percent would re-elect Ensign. Twenty-three percent said they'd consider a challenger.

Ensign does not face the voters' verdict until 2012.

The poll of 400 registered Nevada voters was taken Monday and Tuesday. It had a margin of error of 5 points.
 
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It's tough to be the Majority Leader for the Democrats. As a matter of national perception, the Democratic Majority Leader really cannot come from traditional liberal strongholds like California and New York, but those are exactly the locations best suited to send a ML to the Senate. Being a Democratic ML forces a Senator to perform a balancing act between satisfying the liberal-leaning interests of the national party with satisfying ones own local constituency, which is almost inevitably more conservative than the national party.

I have sympathy for anyone placed in that position, including Daschle before him. But I cannot say that Reid has performed remarkably well at either of those functions. He has managed to alienate both the national party and his own local constituency.

But as I said, it is a tough job and perhaps an impossible one for any Senator not coming from a traditional liberal stronghold.
 
Epicurus said:
It's tough to be the Majority Leader for the Democrats. As a matter of national perception, the Democratic Majority Leader really cannot come from traditional liberal strongholds like California and New York, but those are exactly the locations best suited to send a ML to the Senate. Being a Democratic ML forces a Senator to perform a balancing act between satisfying the liberal-leaning interests of the national party with satisfying ones own local constituency, which is almost inevitably more conservative than the national party.

I have sympathy for anyone placed in that position, including Daschle before him. But I cannot say that Reid has performed remarkably well at either of those functions. He has managed to alienate both the national party and his own local constituency.

But as I said, it is a tough job and perhaps an impossible one for any Senator not coming from a traditional liberal stronghold.
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Besides the fact that he cannot pursue a progressive agenda with conservative voters breathing down his neck, losing another majority leader in an election would just be embarrassing. He should resign and turn all his efforts towards securing his seat; assuming he doesn't lose the primary.
 
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