Reid’s Running in 2010
That’s the word according to this article in Politico.com. That noise you hear are Nevada Republicans rejoicing.
The Nevada Democrat has been meeting with his “inner circle” over the past two months to chart his future, holding sessions in both Washington and Nevada, participants said.
The group includes Susan McCue, his former chief of staff; Gary Myrick, his current chief of staff; Penny Lee, a senior communications aide; Jimmy Ryan, a Citigroup lobbyist who oversaw the Senate floor for Reid; Mark Mellman, who handles Reid’s polling; and Jim Margolis, the Democratic political advertising specialist.
Reid has told the group that he will definitely seek a fifth term, according to McCue and others who have attended the sessions, and he is bringing back McCue, a top political adviser, to fortify his standing here and at home.
“He’s committed to running again,” said McCue, who announced on Wednesday that she is leaving her post as president and CEO of the anti-poverty ONE Campaign to return as a senior adviser to Reid.
With a job approval rating almost 1o points lower than President Bush, Reid doesn’t stand a chance. Frankly, I’m worried that he’ll drop out because that’d give Democrats a better shot at holding this seat.
Reid has faced a number of serious challenges since taking over as majority leader in January, including a hostile president, uncooperative Senate Republicans, an increasingly restless anti-Iraq-war faction within his own Democratic Party, behind-the-scenes jockeying among his Democratic colleagues for position in a post-Reid world and a looming showdown over this year’s spending bills.
His biggest challenge has been himself. He’s made a series of idiotic statements that’ve eroded his credibility. Chief among those statements was his “the surge has failed” statement. Reid is his own worst enemy. He’s incompetent. It hasn’t helped that he’s picked the wrong fights, either.
It doesn’t help to have your allies being your worst nightmare. He’s been forced to mimic MoveOn.org’s talking points to keep the campaign contributions rolling in. While MoveOn.org’s money is a welcome sight, their rhetoric isn’t. Simply put, it doesn’t play well in the Heartland.
And things aren’t much easier back home. Reid, who will turn 68 in December, has also seen his personal approval ratings slump in Nevada, according to a recent poll by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Only 32 percent of Nevadans now approve of the job he’s doing, and 51 percent disapprove. This is a stark reversal from the previous poll in May, when 46 percent approved of Reid and 42 disapproved.
Incumbents don’t get re-elected with a JAR of 32 percent. Incumbents don’t get re-elcted with a 42 percent JAR. To borrow an old Don Meredith tune:
Turn out the lights, the party’s over.
You can put this race to sleep.
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October 25th, 2007 at 2:34 pm
And don’t forget the gleeful “I killed the Patriot Act”. There should be a Republican dogfight to oppose this moonbat.
October 26th, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Reid has an “inner circle” ?
Oh yeah, his cranium.
October 27th, 2007 at 8:40 am
But the voters in Nevada will never hear a peep from the MSM about any of that, or his land deals, or his nepotism, or any of the other myriad “high crimes and misdemeanors.” All they’ll hear about is what a great job he tried to do and was rebuffed at every turn by those nasty Republicans and by the Evil Emperor.
Honest reporting? Yeah, like the mafia reports honestly reports all its income.