As an incumbent, polling below 50% in terms of how people vote is a near death sentence, when your unfavorable rating is over 1½ times your favorable rating, you are in Dick Cheney territory.
The problem is not what he has done, but what he hasn't done.
Notwithstanding the arcane rules of the Senate, his constituents expect him to kick ass and get things done, and he hasn't. He's been a wimp, though I think that this was largely at the request of the Obama administration, which wanted insurance company and pharma support for something called healthcare.
So, now he's screwed, and won't be a Senator in February of 1011, just like Chris Dodd, who got shafted by Obama and His Evil Minions™ in almost exactly the same way.
If the poll numbers weren't bad enough, the merry band of at Politico have released a book, Game Change, in which they have the following quote from Harry Reid:
He was wowed by Obama's oratorical gifts and believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as Obama -- a "light-skinned" African American "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one," as he said privately. Reid was convinced, in fact, that Obama's race would help him more than hurt him in a bid for the Democratic nomination.(emphasis mine)
So now we have a quote, an accurate one since Reid has apologized for it, where he sounds like a country club racist.
Reid needs to announce his retirement, tomorrow.
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