Poll: Obama's Nevada Visit Hurt Reid More Than It Helped

President Obama traveled to a fundraiser in Las Vegas in February hoping to aid the uphill reelection campaign of Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid. It turns out, however, that the President may have actually done more harm than good, a Mason-Dixon poll released on Sunday shows.

During his speech, Obama repeatedly heaped praise on Reid, but voters were apparently unimpressed. Subsequent polling shows that only 7 percent of voters surveyed said they would now be more likely to vote for the senator, while 17 percent said they would be less likely. Seventy-five percent said the president's visit would have no effect on how they vote.

Reid spokesman Jon Summers told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that such a political bump "wasn't the intent of the visit." Summers went on to say that "Senator Reid asked the president to come to Nevada to talk about jobs and the economy."

Though Obama's participation at the fundraiser may not have been designed to benefit Reid in November, the latest polls show that he certainly could have used a boost. The senator now trails the leading two Republican candidates, Sue Lowden and Danny Tarkanian, by more than 10 percent. With the inclusion of a Tea Party candidate, however, Reid leads the field.

The poll of 625 registered Nevada voters was conducted by telephone with a margin of error of 4 percentage points.

Comments

[itjustis]

09:30 AM on 04/03/2010

Please Obama we're counting on you for November to bring the Republicans back in control of Congress. We can't do it without you.
New CBS poll shows:
Pelosi and Reid are viewed unfavorably by roughly three times as many people as they are viewed favorably.
Pelosi's favorable rating in the poll stands at 11 percent. Her unfavorable rating, meanwhile, is 37 percent -- meaning that more than one in three views the California Democrat negatively.
More than half of those surveyed say they are either undecided about Pelosi or haven't heard enough to make a decision.
Reid's favorable rating, meanwhile, is even lower: Eight percent. His unfavorable rating stands at 23 percent.

[Scriobhaim]

07:50 AM on 03/03/2010

And the really funny thing about all this is this: Barack Obama is the one (no pun intended) who told John McCain at the great and glorious health-care summit that "the election is over". It's unfortunate, indeed, that McCain didn't answer Obama, as he SHOULD have, "I'm not the one at this table who needs to be reminded of that, Mr. President. I'm not 'The One' who's been galavanting all over the country in non-stop campaign mode since last January 20th. I've been wrestling with the hard work of governance, not spouting applause lines at post-election rallies."
Let's face it, there's nothing President Obama loves more than being Candidate Obama. Ah, the good old days....

[itjustis]

09:35 AM on 04/03/2010

I hope he enjoys his one term. After the Democrat defeat in November, Pelosi and Reid are going to release their memoirs in a co-written book,"The gang that couldn't shoot straight."

[lordmi]

08:41 PM on 04/27/2010

We will make it 2 terms and productive.
And You may stay on a side of the history making Your noise.
Who cares about stupid?

[lordmi]

08:39 PM on 04/27/2010

your chicken brains still did not get it?
McCain is dead
dead with disgrace of picking moron palin.
But President keeps doing things.
Things that matter.
You just can not get it watching Faux News.
Poor creature, looking forward to meet You in November.

[Kingfrog]

07:35 PM on 03/02/2010

SURPRISE??????

Where has Obama gone where he has HELPED the democratic candidate???

HE should go to Arizona and "help" Mc Cain

[lordmi]

08:42 PM on 04/27/2010

McBush is helping himself successfully.
Could not win even over Trash Party.
Ha-ha.

[naschkatze]

05:13 PM on 03/02/2010

I hope it will help Harry lose.

[coolaid8]

04:49 PM on 03/02/2010

It is getting pretty hard to tell which of these tow men is hurting the other more.

[eahce]

02:26 PM on 03/02/2010

Obama's on a roll,Virginia, New Jersey, Massachusetts and now Nevada keep it roll'in.

[h0tr0d]

02:24 PM on 03/02/2010

Actually I think the timing of Obama's visit actually correlated to Harry Reid ridiculous statements about domestic abuse and unemployed men. With that kind of open misandry, it's more likely that Harry Reid just got pummeled for indicting innocent men across the country.

[Papasito]

02:35 PM on 03/02/2010

No, this is the Obama effect.

[CampCalifornia]

12:39 PM on 03/02/2010

I hope we see the same results when Obama tries to run in 2012. If he wants it, the people reject him.

[lordmi]

08:43 PM on 04/27/2010

he will win.
See You then.

[Scriobhaim]

12:33 PM on 03/02/2010

Has ANYONE noticed the deafening SILENCE with which the HuffPost is treating Obama's New and Improved Still-In-The-Works Sooper-Dooper Health Care Proposal? I've looked all over this site for even a mention of it, and it's NOWHERE. Even though all the regular news services are running stories on it.
I have to believe that this reflects the perfectly understandable Huffie Embarrassment at the latest episode in the Keystone Cops farce. This is the Barack Obama who told Congress a year ago to come up with health care bill by August. The Barack Obama who wasn't going to micro-manage the thing but let Congress invest its deliberative powers in crafting good (read, "Pelosi-Reid Liberal Paradise") legislation. The Barack Obama who held a Health Care Summit last week (WHY, when the bill is all written and his party is in power?), supposedly to show that he's able to "listen", even though the whole gist of what he finally said was, "We can't start over and there's nothing more to be discussed - it's time for the reconciliation track." And, yes, the Barack Obama who NOW (bizarrely) has decided he'd like to take a stab at health-care-reform composing (here, imagine Beethovem humming out the Ninth Symphony to himself....). This is the Barack Obama to whom one can only respond anymore with... "Errr... WHAT?"
Anyone surprised his visit was a negative for Reid?

[lordmi]

08:44 PM on 04/27/2010

Have You heard =- You are complete Idiot and Faux News Parrot.
Congrats.

[janedorothy4]

12:29 PM on 03/02/2010

Who would have thought that just because Obama has spent 3 times as much as Bush in a year he wouldnt be as popular? Or maybe it was the pushing a rotten healthcare bill that did it. Or the failing stimulus. Or the rising unemployment. Or the horrible decisions regarding terrorists Or all the broken promises showing that he could care less what Americans want.

[lincheryl]

01:36 PM on 03/02/2010

Maybe he had to spend so much because the previous administration put us in the economic toilet.

[lordmi]

08:47 PM on 04/27/2010

Clean UO roaches in Your stupid head: unemployment deop STOPPED.
DJI - rised
Iraq is on the way of real ending.
Terrorists are on the way of Killing.
Sales are grow
House prices rised first time in 3 years.
One more?
maybe You need to watch something different than Faux, so You will know at last what is going on the the World.

[spacecreep]

12:28 PM on 03/02/2010

rush limbaugh spawns everywhere....the only important thing to somepeople here is that they get a chance to say something negative about the president.... how about talking about what your elected senator/congressman has done in the last years........years ago, when perry mason was popular4.. law school used to invite him to speak before their students even though he knew nothing of the law.. he hust played that on a tv show..... year ago "marcus welby" was a tv show about a doctor, and medical school invited him to speak before their students even though he knew nothing of medicine.. today we still have people who prefer actors to people who know what they are doing. many republican base supportersa need to brag on their senators/congressman accomplishments instead of rep[eating what glenn beck says...they are the type that will be okay with the children starving, if they can blame it on obama.

[lordmi]

08:48 PM on 04/27/2010

they are doing that because of their own disfortune in life and readiness to blame entire World for that.

[Blufftonian]

12:27 PM on 03/02/2010

Poor Democrats, saddled with an unpopular President.

Wait, where have I heard that phrase before?

[sixletters]

01:45 PM on 03/02/2010

I'm sorry, but I don't think a 50% approval rating should be seen as unpopular, especially in this economic climate and with a republican party that has decided to fore-go the responsibility of governance in favor of a total commitment to trying to kill Obama's presidency, regardless of how bad it hurts the country.

[lordmi]

08:49 PM on 04/27/2010

At Faux News, my Friend. All false goes from there.
is it real news for You, Idiot?

[6465billy]

11:43 AM on 03/02/2010

Anyone out there willing to bet Obama will NOT win more than 5 states in 2012 if he even wins the Dem. nomination. He is another Jimmy Carter with ONLY one unproductive term. What a shame for the ONLY black president to have this on his legacy.

[Artos]

11:42 AM on 03/02/2010

Good, Maybe that was the point. Nevada needs to replace the old Coot anyhow since he can't seem to get anything done in Congress anyway.

[nicothebaker]

11:08 AM on 03/02/2010

Today President Obama touts one of his cutting edge solutions to create jobs. Weather-stripping!!!!???? Insulated doors!!!????? Aren't theses things that have been done by most intelligent people by this time? This can't be his solution to getting people back to work can it? Is it possible he is that clueless about business?????

[eahce]

11:16 AM on 03/02/2010

Your right it's a joke just not funny after robbing us for Wall St.

[lordmi]

08:51 PM on 04/27/2010

I always thought, it is businesses , who create jobs.
Didn't You?
You You did not thought?
or just can not think?