Harry Reid And The Gun Control Fight He Can't Win

FILE- In this Dec. 20, 2012, file photo, Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., speaks to reporters about the fiscal cliff at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's office says the senator was never involved in a deal to have a Utah businessman pay Reid to make a federal investigation disappear. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
FILE- In this Dec. 20, 2012, file photo, Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., speaks to reporters about the fiscal cliff at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's office says the senator was never involved in a deal to have a Utah businessman pay Reid to make a federal investigation disappear. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

In 2010 Harry Reid was facing perhaps the toughest campaign of his five-decade political career. The Senate majority leader has never had particularly high approval ratings back home in Nevada, and Republicans made clear that sending him back to his hometown of Searchlight was their top priority, just as the Tea Party wave was slated to crest.

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