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He hates Obamacare, but he has Obamalove.
That's the latest incarnation of the ever-adaptable Dean Heller, the senator who just won election by 12,000 votes and now is marveling at the skills of the president who just won an electoral landlside.
Couldn't he have waited a decent interval to make it seem like a gradual evolution and not pure opportunism?
The maverick secretary of state who morphed into a far-rightie after Sharron Angle almost beat him six years ago and is now back to being Dean...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: New legislative leaders
DAYS SINCE HARRY REID HAS BEEN ON FACE TO FACE: 658
DAYS UNTIL THE NEVADA LEGISLATURE CONVENES: 88
DAYS UNTIL THE TEEN CAN AFFECT THE POLITICAL WORLD: 260
Good morning, everyone. So you want to start talking about 2014 yet? I kid, I kid. As the GOP’s circular firing squad convenes, it’s not time to look forward just yet. Jon Stewart had a couple of classic moments in his retrospective...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: Pre-empted for election coverage -- I'll be on, so watch!
DAYS SINCE HARRY REID HAS BEEN ON FACE TO FACE: 657
DAYS UNTIL ELECTION DAY: 0
DAYS UNTIL THE TEEN CAN AFFECT THE POLITICAL WORLD: 261
Good morning, everyone. Happy Election Day to all. It’s that day here at Flash World HQ when exhaustion is overwhelmed by adrenaline, where I count down the hours until the polls close and where I get to execute one of...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: A preview of the election, including Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel
DAYS SINCE HARRY REID HAS BEEN ON FACE TO FACE: 656
DAYS UNTIL ELECTION DAY: 1
DAYS UNTIL THE TEEN CAN AFFECT THE POLITICAL WORLD: 262
Good morning, everyone. So my predictions are in. And, shockingly, some people disagree with me. Considering I have never been wrong, this is somewhat distressing. But I will soldier on, somehow, through these...
This will be a continually updating blog with facts, analysis and musings about Election 2012:
LATEST: Heller's rural domination. I hadn't realized just how badly Rep. Shelley Berkley was destroyed in the cow counties. It's not just that Sen. Dean Heller all but wiped out her 60,000-vote edge in Clark County -- he won the rurals by 52,000 votes. But Heller got more votes in three of the cows -- Carson City, Douglas and Churchill -- than Berkley got in 15. A total destruction. And get this:...
Dean Heller would win by 1 percentage point. The president would win Nevada again. Steven Horsford would defy the polls.
"Genius" is a word that is thrown around too easily these days....
In case you missed my predictions, they are here. My only real failing: I believed in the Democratic machine, but didn't realize the potency it would have down the ticket.
The scorecard:
President: I said 50-46. It was 52-46. That's pretty close and certainly within the margin of error.
U.S. Senate: I said 49-...