Jan. 26 (Bloomberg) — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke juggled an interest-rate meeting with phone calls to senators as he rolled up more support for a confirmation vote Majority Leader Harry Reid said may take place Jan. 28 or 29. “He has the votes to be confirmed,” Senator Judd Gregg, a New Hampshire Republican, [...]

James Hohmann, Politico Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid declined to endorse the spending freeze President Barack Obama has proposed, adding that no one from the White House had briefed him on the proposal, and he’s only heard “bits and pieces.” “We’ll have to look and see what the president is talking about,” he said. Echoing [...]

Any lingering questions about Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s health surely were answered this past week. After what happened to affect his prospects in Washington and Nevada, Reid must have the heart of a marathoner and the constitution of a mountaineer. You might recall Reid suffered a mild stroke in August 2005, which fueled speculation, [...]

More than half of NV voters have an unfavorable impression of Senate Maj. Leader Harry Reid, making his bid for a 5th term look decidedly uphill, according to a new survey. The Research 2000 poll, conducted for the liberal DailyKos website, surveyed 600 LVs between Jan. 18-20 for a margin of error of +/- 4%. [...]

Is there a single proposition that explains Scott Brown’s stunning win in the Senate race in Massachusetts? The concept of a single proposition is that it both simply and fully describes what causes something. Did Mr. Brown win because he ran a better campaign than Martha Coakley?  Yes, but does that explain it all?  Of [...]

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If Republicans will study the returns from Massachusetts, then review the returns from Virginia and New Jersey, light will fall upon the path to victory over Barack Obama in 2012. Obama defeated John McCain by winning the black vote 24 to 1, the Hispanic vote 2 to 1 and taking a larger share of the [...]

WASHINGTON — Sen.-elect Scott Brown sat side-by-side with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid today — the Republican from Masschusetts who halted Reid’s 60-seat majority after a stunning victory this week that upended Washington politics. The two spoke for a few minutes in Reid’s office off the Senate floor mostly about their families and the athletic [...]

The latest Wenzel Strategies polling shows the wave of GOP ascendancy that started last year and washed over Democratic strongholds in New Jersey and Massachusetts is now on display in Ohio. Kasich’s healthy lead In recent polling, I found that incumbent Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland trails Republican challenger John Kasich by 10 points, 43% to [...]

The political peril has deepened for Sen. Harry Reid and the entire Democratic ticket in Nevada after the stunning special election victory of a Republican who won the Massachusetts seat of Sen. Ted Kennedy, the late Democratic icon. The head of the Nevada Republican Party, in a chest-thumping conference call with reporters, said Wednesday the [...]