The 1st of the coming bad news.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is trailing a top Republican challenger by 11 points ahead of next year's election, according to a new poll.

The Mason-Dixon Polling and Research survey, reported Sunday in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, showed GOP candidate Danny Tarkanian leading Reid by 49 percent to 38 percent in Nevada.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/23/reid-trails-gop-challenger-double-digits-new-poll/?test=latestnews