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State Sen. Michael Roberson, who hopes to be the upper house leader next year, has formed two new PACs to increase his ability to raise money.
Roberson already controls two PACS -- Senate Majority and Jobs First (with colleague Ben Kieckhefer). But that, apparently, is not enough, probably because willing donors have maxed out to those entities. So last week, Roberson filed paperwork to form Victory PAC and Reform PAC for the same innocuous purpose: "To support political candidates and...
The presidential race is tied in Nevada and Sen. Dean Heller is up 5 in the Senate race, according to a well-known GOP pollster, contradicting results of the survey I posted a short time ago.
Glen Bolger has been one of the more reliably accurate pollsters here, so his numbers, outlined in two documents below, should not be discounted.
The number of voters surveyed is the same, so are the partisan demographics and the Hispanic sample (14 percent) is identical to PPP's demographic. Both polls...
DAYS SINCE HARRY REID HAS BEEN ON FACE TO FACE: 617
DAYS UNTIL ELECTION DAY: 42
DAYS UNTIL EARLY VOTING BEGINS: 25
DAYS UNTIL CD4 DEBATE ON F2F: 9
DAYS UNTIL U.S. SENATE DEBATE ON F2F: 20
DAYS UNTIL CD3 DEBATE ON F2F: ??
DAYS UNTIL THE TEEN CAN AFFECT THE POLITICAL WORLD: 290
Good morning, everyone. Did you know this is a CRITICAL week? If you don’t, you are not a potential donor to a federal campaign and have not received an entreaty...
President Obama is stretching his lead to 9 percentage points in Nevada and Rep. Shelley Berkley is up 4 over Sen. Dean Heller in a new Public Policy Polling survey taken for the League of Conservation Voters.
The survey, which you can see below and was taken last week of 501 likley voters, shows Obama up 52-43 and Berkley up 48-44. Those numbers are even greater for the president than other public polls and Berkley's lead will come as a surprise considering other results.
Republicans are sure...
Three sources have now confirmed that Mitt Romney raised $2 million at his Red Rock Resort fundraiser Friday in Las Vegas.
The event, which included $2,500 to $25,000 donor levels, was the second $2 million payday for Romney in Vegas. The first was at Donald Trump's place in May.
So even if Romney loses the state, it's been good to him -- add the $4 million to whatever Sheldon Adelson has donated under cover of a c4.
Maybe he needs to blow some cash in Vegas and get some R & R before the big Denver debate a week from Wednesday.
Whatever the reason, President Obama is coming to Las Vegas on Sunday, according to an email from Obama For America's Nevada political director, Mariela Hernandez:
I hope this email finds you well. I want to let you know that on Sunday September 30, the President will travel to the Las Vegas area for a campaign event. We ask that you please hold on making any public statements...
The Democrats have extended their registration lead to about 65,000 voters over the Republicans, continuing an inexorable stretching of a lead that could make the difference in November in critical races.
To put this in perspective, the Democrats had lost so much of their lead -- once at 100,000-plus statewide in the halcyon days of 2008 -- that it was down to 37,000 voters in January. It now appears the Democrats may double that lead by the time registration closes in three weeks.
These...
There have been a lot of pieces written recently about the disconnect between Nevada’s terrible economy and President Obama’s lead in the polls here.
Mark Barabak of the Los Angeles Times tackled the conundrum over the weekend and also wrote a a piece about the Culinary union getting involved in the election after months of slumbering.
The two stories are connected.
The reason that Mitt Romney can’t gain traction in this state, besides his inept messaging, is that the Democrats and their...
Good morning, everyone. After last night’s Midbar Kodesh Temple forum, I’d like to say I have my faith restored in the quality of candidates running and the political process. While there were a few surprisingly good legislative hopefuls, mostly I am left with a familiar question: Why do people run for office and not have any basic positions on basic questions? I know: I sound like a naïve, cub reporter. But if I ever stop being astounded/incensed by such behavior, I might as well stop doing...