The National Republican Senatorial Committee began airing its first attack ad against Reid, lambasting him as a "super-spending partisan." [Las Vegas Sun] The race is already on.
Reid was responsible for bringing early presidential caucuses to Nevada, a move that gave Nevada Democrats a 100,000-voter advantage over a weakened state GOP. Just a year ago, Democrats were less than 5,000 voters ahead of Republicans.
Smart move on Reid’s part. Using the Presidential campaign to build up the Democratic base to enhance his chances of winning his own election in 2010. The Sun reports Reid has $3.3 million in his war chest, almost half what he spent in his 2004 election campaign. He “has promised plenty of help for Nevada in the stimulus bill Congress is crafting,” says the Sun.
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is that he will “absolutely not” be pirmetted in caucus. I think this rather stark public statement is as much about Biden as it is about separation of powers. I am not saying it’s a slight, just a tacit statement that they don’t want Biden meddling – which I gather they believe would be the case.