If This Holds True, Harry Reid Is About To Become A WHOLE Lot Less Powerful

Floyd Brown / Western Journalism

The competition for the U.S. Senate this fall is getting nasty… and when the smoke clears, I predict that Harry Reid will be retired as Senate Majority Leader.

Between then and now, though, it’s going to be a rough ride.

The Republicans need six seats to flip the Senate from Democrat to Republican, and the latest polling shows nine races are too close to call.

What’s more, in some states, we don’t even know who the eventual candidates might be.

With that in mind, here’s an update from the frontlines of this all-important election season.

The Left Has Miscalculated

The Democrats believe they have a chance to pick up at least two seats (in Georgia and Kentucky) that currently belong to Republican senators. However, I’m skeptical that either Georgia or Kentucky is actually in play.

For starters, Kentucky is the home state of the Republican leader, Mitch McConnell. McConnell is being challenged by Alison Lundergan Grimes, the 35-year-old Secretary of State in Kentucky; and she’s claiming that the 72-year-old McConnell has been around too long to be effective.

In the end, though, Grimes will come up empty in her pursuit of McConnell, who has a ton of clout because of his tenure.

Meanwhile, in Georgia, the Republican incumbent decided to retire, leaving Democrat Michelle Nunn facing off against businessman David Perdue. Democrats fondly remember the service of Nunn’s father, Sam, and hope that the storied name will carry his daughter to victory.

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