Has Harry Reid Gotten a big Political Break In Nevada?
Has Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid just gotten a big political break in Nevada where until recently he was considered toast? It sounds this way from the news that the tea party movement is going to run a candidate for Senator — thus potentially splitting the GOP vote in what some had said is Reid’s seemingly futile (up to now) effort to get re-elected :
Sun columnist Jon Ralston is reporting that the Tea Party has qualified as a third party in Nevada and will have a candidate in the Senate race to battle for the seat held by Majority Leader Harry Reid.
The party has filed a Certificate of Existence but needs to get 1 percent of the electorate to vote for its candidate in November to permanently qualify, according to the report.
Ralston reported that Jon Ashjian will be the Tea Party’s U.S. Senate candidate on the November ballot. Ashjian still must declare his candidacy.
There are six other third-party candidates going through the verification process to appear on the ballot as U.S. Senate candidates — one Reform Party hopeful and five as independents, Ralston reported.
If this splits the vote Harry Reid might use up the last of his political nine lives and be around a bit more.
H/t Political Wire
7 Responses to “Has Harry Reid Gotten a big Political Break In Nevada?”
He (or his operatives, to be more correct) are likely is doing everything they can from behind the scenes to make sure the Tea Party candidate gets on the ballot.
We'll see what happens when we get closer to the election. usually third parties, through what I have observed, poll high early on in addition to getting a lot of media coverage over how they are going to be an upset to the race, which usually does not pan out by election day.
I for one wouldn't mind seeing Reid go. But, for the conservatives here looking for a chuckle at the expense of a few Democratic senators, just imagine the reaction of a Reid victory from those such as Schumer who have assumed Reid's loss to be inevitable and are already maneuvering for his position. :-p
I'd much rather see Chuck Schumer in the spot. It would be interesting to see how well a “Tea “Party” candidate would do though.
I don't know who I would like to see crestfallen the most – Reid or the right-wing blogs who have a bottle of bubbly stored away for the day he loses his office.
We already have.
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/11/hoff…
Indeed, many Democrats like to deride the Tea Partiers as “insane”; nevertheless, if Tea Party activists failed to learn their lesson from before, perhaps the term is appropriate after all.
The Tea Party will not run the candidate in the general election. They will become a molder of another candidate. This will be the case for 2010 and 2012. After that, if the ferver continues within the poplulace against Dems and Repubs for the same ol' crap they've been force-feeding us for 2 decades (or more)…. then they'll run as an actual third party.
For now, they will run a candidate with the power to upset, but demand that their platform be adopted or addressed.
I just can't see Nevadans sending Harry Reid back to DC, unless its to keep him out of local politics.