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Article: Searching for Harry Reid.
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- The Progressive
- Article date:
- March 1, 2005
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An hour down the interstate, fifty-four miles southeast of Las Vegas on a new four-lane highway, sits the old mining town of Searchlight. It's much in the news these days as the birthplace and home of the new Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid. In this sparse and rugged spot, with a population hovering around 800, the houses are modest, many of them trailer homes. It's a place not unlike the America that elected George Bush. Rural and spacious. A place that appreciates small government and smaller taxes, though it doesn't mind taking a handout once in a while.
I arrive in Searchlight on a cold afternoon in early January, two months after the Presidential election, ...