Harry Reid, Rainmaker?

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid insists he’s got the whole Democratic race under control. Here’s a conversation he had with the Las Vegas Review-Journal last week:

Question: Do you still think the Democratic race can be resolved before the convention?

Reid: Easy.

Q: How is that?

Reid: It will be done.

Q: It just will?

Reid: Yep.

Q: Magically?

Reid: No, it will be done. I had a conversation with Governor Dean (Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean) today. Things are being done.

What? “Things are being done”?

For the record, I asked the Clinton campaign if it knew what Reid was talking about. It didn’t. Its response, from top Clinton aide Harold Ickes: “This process needs to play out. There are a number states left to vote.” I’ll call Reid’s office next.

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