US Senate

Don't expect Nevada's U.S. senators to be a presidential runningmate. In a survey of the U.S. Senate's membership not already running for president on whether they'd accept an offer to be vice president, The Hill newspaper found a variety of responses to the veepstakes question. Some were accompanied by laughs, others took the question seriously.

So, how did Democrat Harry Reid and Republican John Ensign respond?

U.S. Senator Susan Collins on Wally Edge, at the Maine Republican State Convention last weekend. Go to PolitickerME.com for more information.

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LAS VEGAS-For anyone who missed it, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart last night, plugging his new book, The Good Fight. Reid was unsurprisingly soft-spoken, as noted by Stewart, and revealed a little of his motives for writing the autobiography.

"I tried in the book to let the people of Nevada, since I was born there, went away to high school, to college, law school, practiced law, went into public service, about two and a half million people have moved to that sparsely populated state," said Reid. "They don't know who I am. They see little snippets about me on TV, on radio, on newspaper, people don't know who I am. I thought it was important to tell a story about really who I am and that in America if I can make it, anyone can."

Click here to watch Reid's appearance.

Can Clark County Commission Chairman Rory Reid run for Governor in 2010 if his father runs for re-election? Some pundits say that Reid, widely viewed as a rising star in Democratic politics, would be at a disadvantage if he tries to share the statewide ballot with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who has been struggling to increase his job approval ratings among voters in his home state. 

Democrats are taking a bit of a risk in their bids to oust Dean Heller and Jon Porter from their seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.  If Heller and Porter win, they could find their political careers strengthened through their victories in tough races – something that could propel them in to the 2010 U.S. Senate race against Majority Leader Harry Reid.  Of course, if Heller and Porter lose, the marquis Republican challengers are gone.