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If you don't think we matter in the presidential race and Senate matrix, consider the latest on ad buys, with a whopping one from Crossroads (the Karl Rove group) at the top:
----How big is the Crossroads buy? $300,000 on one Vegas station for one week (Oct. 24-30). Extrapolate that!
----Majority PAC (help for Rep. Shelley Berkley) put down six figures for the last week.
----Priorities USA Action, the Obama-aligned SuperPAC, put down substantial buys, North and South, for the last push.
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TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: Planned Parenthood has become a presidential election flashpoint -- we'll have a regional leader
DAYS SINCE HARRY REID HAS BEEN ON FACE TO FACE: 641
DAYS UNTIL ELECTION DAY: 18
DAYS UNTIL EARLY VOTING BEGINS: 1
DAYS UNTIL CD3 DEBATE ON F2F: 5
DAYS UNTIL THE TEEN CAN AFFECT THE POLITICAL WORLD: 265
Good morning, everyone. We are now on the eve of early voting, and we will see signs right away whether...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: Benny Yerushalmi vs. Mark Hutchison for state Senate
DAYS SINCE HARRY REID HAS BEEN ON FACE TO FACE: 640
DAYS UNTIL ELECTION DAY: 19
DAYS UNTIL EARLY VOTING BEGINS: 2
DAYS UNTIL CD3 DEBATE ON F2F: 6
DAYS UNTIL THE TEEN CAN AFFECT THE POLITICAL WORLD: 266
Good morning, everyone. Yes, I have a newfound love of Reno. And it is beautiful up here. But when hotel Internet goes down, I love----nothing!
Rushing to...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: HHS boss Mike Willden
DAYS SINCE HARRY REID HAS BEEN ON FACE TO FACE: 639
DAYS UNTIL ELECTION DAY: 20
DAYS UNTIL EARLY VOTING BEGINS: 3
DAYS UNTIL CD3 DEBATE ON F2F: 7
DAYS UNTIL THE TEEN CAN AFFECT THE POLITICAL WORLD: 267
Good morning, everyone. Debate No. 2 is in the books and rarely have I seen a moment like that one on Libya – Barack Obama’s rehearsed high dudgeon followed by Mitt Romney’s tactical...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: PART TWO OF U.S SENATE DEBATE
DAYS SINCE HARRY REID HAS BEEN ON FACE TO FACE: 638
DAYS UNTIL ELECTION DAY: 21
DAYS UNTIL EARLY VOTING BEGINS: 4
DAYS UNTIL CD3 DEBATE ON F2F: 8
DAYS UNTIL THE TEEN CAN AFFECT THE POLITICAL WORLD: 268
Good morning, everyone. Quite the intense, lively, occasionally nasty U.S. Senate debate last night on “Ralston Reports,” with many sharp exchanges and tension during those long...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: CD1 hopeful Chris Edwards, feedback on Steve Wynn, Reality Check time
DAYS SINCE HARRY REID HAS BEEN ON FACE TO FACE: 637
DAYS UNTIL ELECTION DAY: 22
DAYS UNTIL EARLY VOTING BEGINS: 5
DAYS UNTIL CD3 DEBATE ON F2F: 9
DAYS UNTIL THE TEEN CAN AFFECT THE POLITICAL WORLD: 269
Good morning, everyone. Tonight’s the night you’ve been waiting for in the Nevada Senate race: One hour on “Ralston Reports” between Sen....
President Obama leads 51-43 in Nevada, according to a Mark Mellman poll taken this week for Americans United for Change.
AUFC is a liberal, union-funded group, which may give GOP folks ammunition. But Mellman has a good track record here.
Is he right? We'll find out.
Memo linked here.
Darren Littel, an RNC operative helping lead the GOP effort here, tweeted this on Thursday: "In #NV absentee ballots GOP outperforming reg numbers by 7%, Dems under performing by 2 points"
Wow. That sounds huge.
But, as always, context is called for.
Republicans nearly always beat Democrats in absentee ballots -- they did by a few points two and four years ago. And mail ballots are a small percentage of the overall vote.
Republicans can't match the Democratic ground game (unions, etc.), so...
The numbers:
State: 11.8 percent
Vegas: 11.5 percent
Reno: 10.8 percent
Carson: 10.9 percent
Full report linked here.