It’s a good thing for Harry Reid that Nevadans don’t vote in the after life.

It’s a bad thing for the Democratic leader in the U.S. Senate that newspapers let family members write whatever they want in paid obituaries. He awoke to this one in memory of 84-year-old Charlotte McCourt, a former Reid supporter:

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.

Something tells me there’s a strong current of enlightened redneck blood in the McCourt family history — that and an ornery streak a mile long.

John Smith, a writer for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, said this after seeing the obit: “It’s the kind of small story that has the potential to ricochet like a bullet through the campaign showdown between incumbent Reid and Republican challenger Sharron Angle.”

If Angle is smart, she’ll feature the obit prominently in her campaign ads and find ways to remind voters of it at every opportunity.