Republicans Paint Reid as Bogeyman in 2014 Senate Races
By Kathleen Hunter 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z
Republicans are invoking a harrowing image of Senate Majority Leader
Harry Reid to lure independent voters away from Democrats and motivate their party base ahead of November’s election.
The strategy has a big glitch: Almost half the voters don’t know who Reid is.
Republicans needn’t worry too much, though, as Reid’s line of attack against them isn’t much better. He’s focused on an even lesser-known pair of bogeymen, the energy billionaire Koch brothers, who are financing a number of pro-Republican groups.
“To normal independent voters, the most obscure story possible would be a fight between Reid and the Koch brothers over Benghazi,” said John Pitney, a political scientist at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California, in a reference to the 2012 attack on a Libya diplomatic post that left four Americans dead.
“Most normal human beings outside of the the state of Nevada neither know nor care who Harry Reid is. I’m sure most people associate the Koch brothers with a certain cola beverage,” Pitney said.
Unlike presidential campaigns, elections held in the middle of a White House term tend to lack broad themes and big personalities. Even so, that hasn’t stopped leaders in Washington from trying to latch on to Reid and the Koch brothers to personify the traits of the other party that could turn voters away.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-16/republicans-paint-reid-as-bogeyman-in-2014-senate-races.html
The Koch Bros, good American industrialists, who provide many good jobs aren’t running for office.
The Democrats, the party of ZERO ideas might as well blame the easter bunny.
How about George Soros who funds all the left wing wackos? No mention of him?
Reminds me of DOM.
Reid is the majority leader of the Senate.
He decides which bills come up for a vote.
Being a leader involves compromise between parties.
Reid is an ideologue who refuses to compromise.
He is wholly responsible for the “do nothing” Senate