ROLL CALL: The Attack Ads Harry Reid Didn’t Want You To See.

Harry Reid’s strategy of blocking amendments all year was intended with one clear objective in mind — protecting his majority.

Republicans have complained vociferously about the Senate majority leader shutting down amendments — but behind the scenes, the Nevada Democrat’s senators asked him to do so for a very simple reason: Nobody wants to give an opponent fodder for 30-second ads in a tough election year. . . .

Here are some of the subjects — and TV attack lines — Reid’s strategy sought to avoid.

We’ll see how that works out for him. It’s not a strategy born of confidence in the rightness of his positions. . . .