REID IS HARRIED – AT 6:15 P.M. ET:  Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, may not be back after the November election.  Moving vans may be alerted.  From The Hill:

Majority Leader Harry Reid barely cracks the 40% mark in his bid for re-election and trails two of his possible opponents by double digits, according to a new Rasmussen poll.

When paired against former state GOP chairwoman Sue Lowden, Reid trails 54%-39%. Former Assemblywoman Sharron Angle leads by a similar margin of 51%-39%.

Reid does slightly better against businessman Danny Tarkanian, to whom he would lose 49%-42% if the election were held today.

A devastating 53% of Nevadans have a "very unfavorable view" of Reid.

COMMENT:  They are obviously tough in Nevada. 

It's fairly common, by the way, for members of Congress who rise to high position to begin to suffer in popularity in their own states or districts.  Voters sometimes get the sense that the congressperson or senator has lost touch with the folks back home.  This is especially a problem with senators who become chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.  An inordinate number of them have come to political grief when running for reelection.

But the election isn't being held today.  Let's see if Republicans will fight hard enough to carry today's advantage through to November.

April 5,  2010