With his wife still recovering from a serious car accident in the D.C. area and facing a difficult political landscape back home, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid kicked off his campaign yesterday in Searchlight, Nevada, for a fifth term in office.

Reid's had close races before. Prior to a 61% victory in 2004, Reid won his three previous terms with just 48%, 51% and 50% of the vote. However, after a new Rasmussen poll yesterday found him trailing a Republican opponent by as much as 15 points, Reid could be in for the most challenging race of his life.

He trails former Nevada GOP Chair Sue Lowden by nearly 12 points in the RCP Average, and the state is listed as Lean Republican on the RCP Battle For The Senate map.

"I'm not a big poll guy," Reid told the Las Vegas Review-Journal yesterday aboard his campaign bus. "Everyone who knows me knows I have never paid attention to polls. The only poll that matters is the one on Election Day."

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