LOS ANGELES (YBH.ME) – He’s nearly 70 years old and his nickname lately is “Harried” Reid. Recent polls suggest the Nevada Senator and Majority Leader is under the gun in his upcoming 2010 re-election bid to keep representing his state in Washington.
Tarkanian and Lowden Going After Harry Reid
Mason-Dixon Polling & Research of Washington, D.C., did a poll for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, revealing Reid’s approval rating to be at a lackluster 38 percent. The poll showed the two senatorial front-runners — Republicans Sue Lowden and Danny Tarkanian — would defeat Reid if voters went to the polls today. Lowden even leads Reid in pro-Democrat Clark County.
Chair of the local Republican Party, former Nevada State Senator, Sahara Casino vice president and TV anchorwoman, Lowden has a high profile and is ripe for national office, according to campaign pundits. Her website, www.suelowden.com, heavily focuses on Reid’s missteps and lack of regard for Nevadan’s needs.
Danny Tarkanian is the son of legendary UNLV basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian. The younger Tarkanian unsuccessfully ran for the Nevada State Senate and the Secretary of State position. Danny was a star college b’ball player. He and his father are heavyweights in Las Vegas real estate. His website www.tark2010.org, notes he was recently named Conservative of the Week by the Conservative Alliance. He, too, focuses on Reid’s health care policies, and features statements about what Nevadans need.
In Presidential contests, Nevada has almost always voted Republican, though the state went to Obama in 2008. It’s seen as a so-called “purple” state, and as such, having their man in D.C. toeing the hard left Democratic line as majority leader has not endeared him to conservative Nevadans.
Reid has been historically reliant on support from the tourism and service employment sector, both industries have high job turnover rates. Reid in effect has to re-introduce himself to potential voters. “Since his last election, probably 20 percent of the electorate is new,” Eric Herzik, a political scientist at the University of Nevada, Reno, has noted.
The health care bill may well be, as for other Democrats, a Waterloo for Reid, as 50 percent of registered Nevada voters disapproved of his health care work, 39 percent approved and 11 percent were not sure. Reid’s stock may be high with President Obama and the establishment in Washington, but his unpopularity at home may cost him his Senate seat.
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