In Nevada, Harry Reid reminds voters why his approval numbers are in the tank by demonstrating just how out-of-touch he is with his constituents. Despite numerous polls to the contrary, Reid told Fox News’ Gretta van Sustern that “everybody acknowledges with rare exception that what we did was terrific” when it comes to his massively unpopular health care overhaul. CLICK HERE TO WATCH

National Review Online points out that the last poll shows overwhelming opposition in Nevada to Reid’s health care bill, with 62 percent favoring its repeal.  The same Rasmussen poll shows Reid trailing by double digits in the General Election. 

VAN SUSTEREN: Why do you think that there was such — and I don’t want to use a term that overstates it, but there were an awful lot of people who didn’t like it. More people were unhappy, I think, with the bill, the health care bill, than were happy with it. Why do you think that? REID: Because the loud minority made a lot of noise. Now that the legislation passed, it is amazing how much different people attitude is. I mean traveling on an airplane people are so nice to me. We have people — it wasn’t that way before… So everybody acknowledges with rare exception that what we did was terrific, and if there are some problems in out years we’ll be happy to look at them. Got that? Opposition to the health care bill is the “rare exception.” (The last poll in Nevada puts the “rare exceptions” at 62 percent.) By the way, Senator Reid, they’re called flight attendants, and they’re paid to be nice to you.

And The Hill’s Eric Zimmerman reports that Reid would have bragged about the Cornhusker Kickback “from the rooftops” if he were Ben Nelson:

The Nevada Democrat also expressed surprise that Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) didn’t brag more about the so-called “Cornhusker kickback” that secured extra Medicaid funding for Nebraska. (That provision has since been extended to all the states.)”If I’d gotten that for Nevada, I’d have yelled it from the rooftops,” Reid said. “He didn’t, and that’s a decision he made.” Reid said he was confident in his own position for re-election. Polls have showed him trailing to any of three Republican challengers. Reid said the polls were misleading, and took a shot at the Las Vegas Sun, whom he has quibbled with repeatedly this year.