Reid's Ambition

The New Yorker has a fascinating profile of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) noting he doesn't have great oratorical skills, lacks retail political skills, and is prone to making "crassly impolitic remarks."

"It is a mistake, though, to regard Reid as ineffectual. He is obsessive in his work habits. Everybody in Nevada politics has a story about the brusque telephone calls he makes at all hours. He'll check in as often as several times a day, for five minutes, two minutes, thirty seconds. You'll be saying something and it will dawn on you that he has hung up without saying goodbye. Once, Reid recruited a candidate to run for an important state office, and during a phone call she complained about fund-raising difficulties: click. Reid doesn't like whiners. He found another candidate."

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