Support for Reid in Nevada Tanks

By Don | May 20, 2009



Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has very little support back home in Nevada.

From the Politico

There’s no GOP challenger on the horizon, but another Nevada poll is showing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) very, very vulnerable back home.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal/Mason-Dixon poll found that 45 percent of Nevada voters would “definitely” vote against Reid next year — with only 30 percent saying they want to see him return to office.
What’s curious here is that Nevada voters seem to view Reid through the negative prism of his role as a congressional leader, not as the bring-home-the-bacon guy he portrays when he’s back in the desert.

Another alarm bell is his support among independents, which has fallen to 30 percent.

The other bad sign for Reid is that voters — divided sharply along party lines — aren’t bullish on the stimulus, which isn’t having much of an impact on the state’s worst-in-the-nation foreclosure crisis, fueled by years of outlandish hypergrowth and a housing price bubble, especially in Las Vegas.

This would be great news for the Republicans but they need a candidate first.

The Left Still Relies on Lies

by Jonathan Krohn
05/20/2009


It’s never a pretty sight to watch a politician eat his words. It’s usually a combination of the indigestible and the indefensible. And then there’s the nervousness.

In a press conference on May 14, responding to the CIA records showing she had been previously briefed on waterboarding and other enhanced interrogation tactics, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi seemed on edge, terribly nervous about what she was going to say. Some might say that she didn’t want to mess anything up, but the sometimes iron-fisted Speaker seemed too far out of character for that.

Her gestures, her cast-down eyes, and her squeamishness over her apparently over-prepared remarks were quite uncharacteristic for her. As the cry for Rep. Steny Hoyer to step up as Speaker of the House was raised, and as commentators began to question Pelosi’s truthfulness, another little eyebrow began to be raised. Over at the CIA (the organization that Nancy Pelosi claimed had “misled” Congress on interrogation tactics), the director, Leon Panetta, refuted the Speaker’s claims against the Central Intelligence, saying that Congress was “briefed truthfully.” Uh-oh.



However one likes to look at it, last week’s presser was a tragedy for the Speaker. She was nervous, she was edgy, and she was -- when you boil this down to its essence -- not making any sense. As people began to dissect her speech, it was almost immediately obvious that she was not comfortable with what she was saying because she was not telling the truth.