Good news for those of us who believe that Senator Harry Reid is extremely liberal and that the U.S. would be better off with somebody else as Senate Majority Leader:

Nearly half of Nevadans have had enough of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid as the powerful Democrat heads into his re-election campaign, a new Las Vegas Review-Journal poll finds.

About a third of the state’s voters would re-elect Reid if the 2010 election were held today, according to the poll, but 45 percent say they would definitely vote to replace him. Seventeen percent would consider another candidate.

Those are incredibly bad numbers for an incumbent. Better: they are so horrible, you have to wonder why Reid is not already thinking about retiring early.

Incumbents have to start with a major advantage over their challengers. If they do not, they are often in trouble, meaning that they will lose. (more…)

Politico reports that House Minority Whip Eric Cantor and President Obama have declared war on each other. The subject? Bipartisanship.

I know, it is so ironic you’d think I’m joking. I’m not:

But headed for a meeting with the president at the White House Thursday, Cantor and other House Republican leaders couldn’t resist picking at the scab.| MORE ›

The White House will try to go around reasonably moderate Democrat Ben Nelson and others like him.

It might not be the most glamorous hill, but it’s the one that Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) has vowed to die on. President Obama, however, isn’t going to give him that chance.| MORE ›