The Ever-Tortured Artist: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., will enter the stage with the aim of protecting vulnerable Senate Democrats whose seats go up for election in 2012. It’s a do-or-die task that could determine whether he and his party will remain in control of the chamber, and one in which he will be forced to gauge the political cost-benefits of standing in the way of House Republicans' demands.
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