If Harry Reid loses his re-election bid, who would replace him as Senate majority leader?

[asdjrocky]

How does the process work? Thanks!

[Taverner]

1. LIEBERMAN!!!

Seriously - they hold a special election put together by the Majority Whip

[asdjrocky]

13. Thanks, I knew it was something like that. nt

[FSogol]

2. I say someone with a backbone like Jim Webb. n/t

[Sebastian Doyle]

3. Russ Feingold or Barbara Boxer

Let's have a Democrat in charge of the Senate for once.

[Bobbie Jo]

4. Schumer, I think.

It's a seniority thing, but I'm not too familiar with the process. :shrug:

[WI_DEM]

5. If he loses the person who replaces him will probably be Senate Minority Leader

because then I think the GOP wins back the senate. I would want somebody not from a red state who has to worry about being re-elected and somebody who then can concentrate on being a strong leader and not backing down so easily or finding "common ground."

[d_b]

6. Conrad

maybe Landrieu

[tmyers09]

7. My picks would be Kerry, Feingold, Stabenow, or Durbin.

[laughingliberal]

8. Rockerfeller? Feingold? Boxer? Any real Dem with a spine! nt

[pinto]

9. Election among Senate Democrats, in caucus, iirc.

:hi:

[Ozymanithrax]

10. The Democrats in the Senate get together and elect a leader...

This article from 1988 explains the process.
Washington Talk: The Senate; Choosing a Majority Leader: An Arcane and Curious Process
This it the equivalent of a group of boys dropping their trousers and comparing the size of their prize, and making the person with the biggest stick the winner.

Neither Lieberman nor Bernie Sanders could win, because they are not Democrats. My bet would be Max Baucaus.

[Bonhomme Richard]

11. I am sure they would replace him with someone else from a

heavily republican district.
That is what they always do. ie. Daschle. That way the powers don't have to fight too hard to keep him in line.

[burning rain]

12. He'd be hard to replace.

Not easy to find someone so wimpy and ineffectual.

[Bitwit1234]

14. I like the guy from New York

Weiner...he sure don't mince his words about the GOP...he's slight but he goes after them.

[FLAprogressive]

15. someone just as bad, more than likely.

[LeftishBrit]

16. Is he likely to?

After what I've been reading about Ensign, I'd have thought that Nevada voters would have had enough of Republicans to last them a lifetime; but then I'm very far away.