Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid continues to trail the two top Republican candidates vying for his seat in next year's election, a new poll shows.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that former Nevada GOP chairwoman Sue Lowden and former university basketball star Danny Tarkanian both lead the powerful Nevada Democrat in head-to-head matchups for 2010.
The Mason-Dixon Polling & Research survey put Lowden at 49 percent to Reid's 39 percent. It put Tarkanian at 48 percent to Reid's 43 percent.
Reid has persistently trailed his potential GOP rivals in early opinion polls. The latest showed that he's suffering from widespread negative sentiment -- the survey showed 50 percent view him unfavorably, while 38 percent view him favorably.
But the poll consisted of a relatively small sampling size and had a large margin of error. It surveyed 500 voters between Tuesday and Thursday, and had a margin of error of 4.5 percentage points. Reid also has more than a year to turn things around.
The poll showed Nevada voters are largely undecided on who their GOP candidate should be. Among Republicans, 23 percent backed Lowden and 21 percent backed Tarkanian. Seven other candidates polled far below that, and 44 percent of voters were undecided. - FOX News
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