Harry Reid is on the Hot Seat and is Already Campaigning for 2010

 It may be hard to believe but it is election time again. It seems as though nowadays it is always election season, perhaps I am just paying more attention now than when I was younger.

 Harry Reid sure believes it is election season and he is already campaigning for his re-election in 2010. Harry Reid and also the Republicans consider his seat to be one of the most vulnerable in the election of 2010. Allot can happen between now and then but Harry Reid is acting like he is already nervous.

 He is now in the process of hiring a campaign manager and is stepping up his fundraising efforts.

Sen. Reid, perhaps the most-vulnerable Democrat who will face re-election in a midterm race that is likely to favor his party once again, began interviewing campaign managers last week. The Senate majority leader also recently stepped up fund-raising.

 Why is he in perceived peril? Mostly because the last two senate majority leaders fell victim to the mid-term elections and Harry Reid doesn’t want to follow suit. His favorability ratings aren’t very good either.

 A recent Research 2000 poll of likely voters put his approval rating at 38% and his disapproval rating at 54%, a possible reflection of voters’ displeasure with gridlock and partisanship in Washington

 This is likely to change (one way or the other) with a huge Democrat majority in the house and senate. The gridlock that is hurting his approval ratings should not be as much a factor once 2010 rolls around. What will decide his fate by that point is how far to the left he and his Democrat colleagues push Americans, and whether we are truly a left leaning country.

 While there are still two years to go until we find this out, Harry Reid’s campaign coffers are filling up rather nicely.

A spokesman for Sen. Reid said he expects to have $3 million in his campaign account at the end of the year, up from about $2.75 million on Oct. 1.

 These people, Republicans and Democrats, are in constant campaign mode. The money being generated is astounding.  No wonder nothing gets done. These politicians are more interested in raising money for their re-election that actually doing the job we hired them to do.

 And I thought John McCain’s campaign finance reform was supposed to take the money out of politics.