I saw an ad for the Harry Reid incumbent candidacy for the US Senate on TV yesterday. It claimed that Senator Reid has done a lot to promote the interests of Nevada in his position as Senator.
I'm new to Nevada, but I do know that as Majority Leader of the Senate and a Senator with years of seniority, Reid has ready channels through which to feed any pork, i.e., projects he is promoting on behalf of the State; and he is a national, if not international, power broker--witness, his setting the agenda for items the Senate will take up.
What I'm trying to say that if Reid is ousted as Senator, with his ouster goes the seniority he has attained. I recognize that the polls have him trailing his rival candidates. But none of the latter will be able to achieve on behalf of the State what he, qua his stature in the Senate, might be accomplishing, since any replacement will be "low-man-on-the-totem-pole!"
In Britain, for example, political personages of Reid's stature run in what are regarded as "safe" counties, for the country wants to avoid sharp power breaks.
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