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Harry Reid is the kind of adversary who might just wear you down. Last year, for example, the Nevada Senator staged a one-day filibuster, standing on the Senate floor and talking for eight hours and 35 minutes straight to put majority leader Bill Frist hopelessly behind schedule on other bills that he wanted to rush through before the Thanksgiving recess. Reid planned everything carefully, down to his diet. So he wouldn't be forced to go to the bathroom and lose his right to the floor, he ate only a slice of wheat bread and a handful of unsalted...
George W. Bush knows it as well, which was why he phoned the Senator in Nevada the morning after Election Day to begin building a rapport. Reid ducked press calls last week, but he made it clear in an interview with TIME before the election that the President should not expect a honeymoon if he won a second term. "I don't think he has a lot of respect in the Senate among Democrats," said Reid, who hasn't forgotten the hardball legislative tactics Bush and Senate Republicans used in his first term, like shutting Democratic leaders out of negotiations...
MEDICAL MALPRACTICE Nevada imposed a cap on pain-and-suffering awards; Wyoming voters rejected a similar...
...Kentucky ? 8 South Carolina ? 7 Oklahoma ? 6 Kansas ? 6 Mississippi ? 5 Nebraska ? 5 Utah ? 4 Idaho ? 3 Alaska ? 3 Montana ? 3 North Dakota ? 3 South Dakota ? 3 Wyoming ?20 Ohio ?27 Florida ? 5 Nevada Close calls
...concerns about snafus on Election Day. The touch-screen machines, which will be used by about 30% of voters, have been shown to be vulnerable to tampering, to break down and to lose votes or record none at all. Worse, in every state where they are used except Nevada, the machines produce no paper trail of votes. And e-voting machines can't do recounts. On a second go-round, they simply repeat the outcome they offered the first time...