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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-...
I wonder, as she was riding in a gondola down the Grand Canal four years ago, perhaps gazing up at her luxury (but discounted) room, if Rep. Shelley Berkley ever thought: “This might be a problem.”
I doubt it.
But that congressional trip, which she led, with that ill-fated Venezia sojourn, may have cost her a chance at a U.S. Senate seat. Or not.
Berkley’s campaign clearly thought this ad, which falsely implied she had charged taxpayers $55,000 for an Italian vacation with her husband, hurt her...