Harry Reid's predicament is due to the problem with mortgages and the drop off in the entertainment economies of the two key Democrat strongholds in Nevada of Reno/Sparks and Las Vegas/Paradise ... the rest of the state is basically John Birch territory. Had Reid championed and strong-armed through the Senate consumer friendly mortgage legislation forcing Banks to write down principal and renegotiate mortgage terms then he wouldn't find himself with his back against the wall now. I understand that the Senate represents corporations more than people, but people, currently, elect the Senators. Reid should have been Machiavellian and thrown the Banks and Wall Street under the bus to save his skin and didn't.
Don't tell me it was Reid's stand on Health Care Reform that sank him, he forgot that all politics is local, and it was no secret that the very areas he relies on for re-election were suffering the worst during the economic crisis. I'm sure the Democrats of Reno/Sparks and Las Vegas/Paradise who have lost their jobs, homes or are heading towards that condition are wondering what the upside of Reid as Majority Leader of the Senate was for them. Therein. lies Reid's problem.
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