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Welcome to the Weekly Report.
This week:
1. State of the Races update
2. Turnout modeling for the GOP lieutenant governor's race
3. Thought of the week from one insider on the med pot rush
4. New feature: Campaign moves to look for
5. Lowden's rape victim letter, those 15-second CCEA ads, smartest/dumbest moves of the week
THOUGHT OF THE WEEK
One of my connected insiders had this to say about the medical pot rush to come, a prescient look at what I, too, have been hearing, which is what will...
To hear the bleating partisans tell it, the most recent Supreme Court decision on campaign finance struck the greatest blow for the First Amendment since Madison wrote it or sent America into the hands of oligarchs more inimical to democracy than George III ever was.
The truth, as ever, resides nowhere near these poles, neatly echoed by the majority and minority court factions that declared they wanted to protect the benighted American populace from corruption. Beyond the silly sophistry and...
In a new ad airing in Reno, Secretary of State Ross Miller, running for attorney general, shows he understands the potential impact of an attack from an outside group.
The new spot, which you can watch below, has the requisite ominous music as the State Government Leadership Foundation is described, followed by some obnoxious pundit calling the outfit's ad false and then pivoting to Miller's law enforcement endorsements. I'm not sure I would have repeated those images of an apparently cavorting...
3:40 PM, UPDATED BELOW WITH REID AD, TOO:
No one has spoken out more against The Education Initiative than Gov. Brian Sandoval.
He has described the margin tax in terms generally reserved for what the world would look like after nuclear armageddon.
So I find it quite delicious that the Clark County Education Association, in the first ad in the battle for education funding this cycle, uses Sandoval in its pitch. No mention of the margin tax. But it's there, in spirit.
Narrator: Everyone agrees...
After Mark Hutchison went up on the air with a relatively small buy and a gauzy, positive ad, Sue Lowden is putting an ad on the air reiterating her attack on the state senator for voting to enable Obamacare.
The ad is a distilled version of a one-minute ad Lowden ran earlier before a non-televised Elko debate in that rural county.
It's a FOX buy. I hear inveterate Republican voters watch that station.
Here's the ad: