Dead woman’s final wish: Support anybody but Reid

It’s pretty bad when the sitting Senate majority leader is fielding political attacks from the obituary page — from a long-ago supporter, no less.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal’s John L. Smith flags this obit published in his paper Tuesday for Charlotte McCourt, a Nevadan who died last week at 84: “We believe that Mom would say she was mortified to have taken a large role in the election of Harry Reid to U.S. Congress. Let the record show Charlotte was displeased with his work. Please, in lieu of flowers, vote for another more worthy candidate.”

Of course, this negative message would have hurt much worse in the heyday of Chicago's local Democratic machine, which was notorious for including the names of the dead on its voting rolls.