Reid's image takes a hit

[NVMojo]

BS ALERT! This is coming from big time Repuke folk! They must really be threated by Reid!

April 11, 2006

Becoming U.S. Senate minority leader has hurt Sen. Harry Reid's popularity back home, according to a Review-Journal poll.

Since he was re-elected in 2004 and took the party post, the percentage of Nevadans who view Reid favorably has dropped by 10 percentage points, while the number who view him unfavorably has increased 14 percentage points.

Analysts say it's obvious Reid's new status, which requires him to spout the Democratic party line aggressively and also take the brunt of Republican attacks, has turned off home state voters who saw him as independent. Some are surprised at the magnitude of the shift.

"Wow," said University of Nevada, Reno, political scientist Eric Herzik on hearing Reid's new rating. "That's a real tight spread."

more...

http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/Apr-11-Tue-2006/news/6800507.html

[xultar]

1. Ahhhh I love the smell of threatened rethug in the afternoon!

[rzemanfl]

2. Have this brain-dead suckers looked at shrub's numbers lately?

47% stongly dissapprove. A third want him impeached.

[IndianaGreen]

3. Harry Reid told Nevadans that "Divine Straker" bunker buster test was OK

ignoring the evil purpose of Divine Straker, to test technology to be used for nuke attack on Iran, and ignoring the Native Americans that have objected to the test, not to mention many other Nevadans.

[tritsofme]

4. It doesn't matter.

He's in the clear until 2010.

[jayfish]

5. Whenever I See A "News Story" Using The Word Spout Without...

quotation marks surrounding it, I quickly turn away so as to avoid the smell of a dirty old RAG.


Jay

[0007]

12. The Las Vegas Sun use to be worse. The Review Journal use

to be on the liberal side.

[NVMojo]

16. I've lived in Nevada for almost 20 years and the LVRJ has always

been Republican!!

[lovuian]

6. This is a warning to Democrats that the party line

in some issues need to be really looked at...But I commend Harry for sticking up to the Repubs...:bounce:

[Der Blaue Engel]

9. How so?

What part of the "party line" do you feel needs to be looked at?

[lovuian]

10. One issue is the Censure of Bush by Feingold

maybe I'm wrong but I got the opinion that some Democrats were not supportive of that...

Democrats have to be very specific on the Immigration issue... Harry should be Against cheap labor being abused by employers which he is but the then gets wrapped up with amnesty... and amnesty can't be granted until the borders and healthcare issue is fixed...

The War is another ... many democrats supported the Iraq War... lets see what happens when Iran war starts...are they going to be hawks or they be outraged ... most of the Democrats I know have been cheering on attacking Iran due to WMD... I think those statements will come back and haunt them...

[electropop]

7. He would be more popular if his party line was more anti-Repub.

[Jane Austin]

8. So, I'm supposed to believe that Nevada

is the only state in the country where Dems are losing popularity?

[NVMojo]

11. i'm telling ya! They are scared!!!

[Jane Austin]

13. I think yer on to something!

n/t

[BuyingThyme]

14. I don't know about the poll, but I liked him better before.

[NVMojo]

15. ...he's the same as he ever was. spin, Rovian spin. Rove is from Reno

and Nevada is still a key state for Repukes to maintain strict CONTROL over!!! Lots of FEDERAL LANDS THERE TO GET RICH FROM!!

[leesa]

17. Well, approving the detonation of 700 ton bombs on Las Vegans

might tend to do that.