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To: longnshort who wrote (283827)	4/11/2006 1:11:58 PM
From: paret	Respond to of 1575859

Reid's Image Takes A Hit Las Vegas Review Journal ^ \| April 11, 2006 \| Molly Ball 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." The "spread" is what political insiders call the distance between a politician's favorable and unfavorable percentages. In the new R-J poll, of the 625 regular voters surveyed, 43 percent had a favorable opinion of Reid, while 39 percent had an unfavorable view. A week before Reid was re-elected in 2004, an R-J poll had his favorable rating at 53 percent and his unfavorable percentage at 25. That means Reid's spread has gone from a comfortable 18 points to a precarious 4. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. Reid's status as leader of the opposition in the Senate has led many Republicans to label him an "obstructionist" since he took the post. "This is the problem that any national leader faces within his state," Herzik said. "He has to take some positions nationally that probably do hurt him back in Nevada, and he has to be more outspoken." snip (Excerpt) Read more at reviewjournal.com ...