Harry Reid Hurt In Polling After Obama’s Visit To Las Vegas

Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid is up for re-election and has been making headlines by polling abysmally against potential Republican headlines. So Barack Obama recently made a trip to Nevada to hold Reid’s hand and lend a little hope ‘n change to his re-election efforts.
The result? Not a whole lot.

WASHINGTON — During his whirlwind visit to Las Vegas two weeks ago, President Barack Obama mentioned U.S. Sen. Harry Reid by name four dozen times, gave him a big hug and talked him up as if he was a long-lost brother.
In remarks that could not have been more laudatory, Obama repeatedly characterized the veteran Democratic leader as a man “made of very strong stuff” who was making the right decisions for the state back in the nation’s capital.
But as Reid faces an uphill path to win re-election to a fifth Senate term, Obama’s enthusiastic endorsement does not appear to have improved the Senate majority leader’s standing among constituents, according to a new poll conducted for the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Reid got no bounce from Obama’s visit on Feb. 19, when the president spoke highly of him at Green Valley High School and to business leaders at CityCenter, polling indicates.
A larger percentage of voters surveyed (17 percent) said they would be less likely to vote for Reid following the president’s visit than said they would be more likely to vote for him (7 percent). Seventy-five percent said Obama’s visit would have no effect on how they vote.

Ouch.
And that’s worse considering that this comes after Obama’s high-profile endorsements of Creigh Deeds in Virginia, Jon Corzine in New Jersey and Martha Coakley in Massachusetts all resulted in Republicans getting elected.
Normally the party that controls the White House relies on a big campaign and fundraising advantage provided by the President. It would appear as though Democrats, already in trouble heading into these mid-term elections, aren’t going to be enjoying that advantage.