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Reid Says He's A Fighter Who'd Rather Dance

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05-18-2010, 05:06 PM
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love this quote from senator Reid. hopefully they take it to heart...:
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"You can't win a fight unless you're in the fight,"
what the article says with regards to immigration:

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Reid is currently struggling in the polls. To survive, he'll need to motivate a lot of potential voters in Nevada. About a quarter of them are Hispanic. Many put a high priority on revamping immigration laws. Reid made headlines when he told a rally in Nevada last month that he aimed to pass comprehensive immigration reform this year. At that point, South Carolina's Lindsey Graham was the only Senate Republican willing to co-sponsor such legislation. Then Graham backed out. Reid says he was bewildered.

"Lindsey Graham, for reasons that I don't fully understand, was heavily involved in a lot of things we were trying to do, and I appreciated it very much. But for reasons that ... I can't explain, he walked away from all of it; just walked away from it."

Graham, for his part, accuses Reid of rushing immigration reform in hopes of getting re-elected.

"Senator Reid is losing," Graham said recently, "and he put immigration on the table to try to help his numbers back in Nevada. No serious person believes immigration reform is going to pass."

Reid dismisses such talk. "Lindsey doesn't know Nevada. ... I am looking at immigration reform because it is important for our country."

Reid says it makes no sense that Republicans applaud Arizona for passing a law that gets tough on suspected illegal immigrants -- and base part of their praise on the notion that the federal government has failed to act on immigration -- and then block any action on the issue by Washington.

Still, even some of Reid's fellow Democrats think it's asking too much to push through an immigration overhaul this election year. "I think he knows that we have a pretty full calendar for the rest of the year," says Arkansas Sen. Mark Pryor. "And unless we have a bill that's bipartisan, I think it's going to be hard to get it done this year."
http://m.npr.org/story/126905578
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Reid will win.
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I like it when he says "... What I didn't tell everybody was I was always a better fighter than dancer." that makes him sound so badass. Supposedly he has gotten a lot of contributions, twice more than what his opponents have made and that he is known for playing dirty.
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