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The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the Majority PAC both made buys today in Nevada to try to help Rep. Shelley Berkley in what Democrats for months fretted was a race going Sen. Dean Heller's way.
The purchases are substantial and the Majority PAC buy is in Reno, where Berkley needs to do well to win. And by doing well, I mean not lose by too much.
The continually increasing Clark County voter registration numbers now show Democrats may have close to a 115,000 lead in Southern...
MGM Resorts International chief Jim Murren and Las Vegas Sands CEO Michael Leven sharply disagreed Wednesday on whether to allow the federal government to regulate Internet gaming.
During a panel discussion on the state of the industry at the G2E Expo, Leven elaborated on the company’s – and his boss, Sheldon Adelson’s – position on web poker. Leven said there were three reasons that the company has concerns:
----Predictability of revenue. He suggested some cannibalism might occur.
----Leven...
UPDATE: I had forgotten that Steve Wynn gave $475,000 to this group, per POLITICO.
A national group has come in with a six-figure mail and online ad campaign designed to swing the Nevada state Senate to the GOP, with attacks on all five Democratic candidates.
The mail pieces from the Republican State Leadership Committee are attached here and the online ads, which go to micro-sites if you click on them, are below.
The amount of money being spent to win seats that barely pay five figures a year...
The Republican Jewish Coalition continues to be active in Nevada -- hello, Sheldon Adelson -- and now has harnessed a disgusted Home Depot founder to make its case.
There's a TV ad and a web video:
About halfway through my half-hour chat with David Axelrod on Tuesday, President Obama’s top political adviser said matter-of-factly what has become all too clear, especially to Mitt Romney: “It’s a choice; it’s not a referendum.”
Amid all the stuff I expected – Obama is for the middle class, Romney is for tax cuts –that obvious statement seemed so unexpected. Yet, so simple, so true.
Nowhere is the success of the Obama campaign five weeks out so obvious and yet so startling as it is in...
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has a survey indicating Rep. Joe Heck has a 4-point lead over Speaker John Oceguera.
The 42-38 result will make more sense to folks than the 13-point edge Heck enjoyed in a "newspaper" poll a few weeks ago. Even smart Democrats I know think Heck is ahead by high single digits, but this DCCC survey clearly is being released to show people the race remains competitive. It does, if only because of the Democratioc machine's efforts.
The memo is linked...
Secretary of State Ross Miller has decided to advocate for a raft of campaign reforms in a state where most serious efforts have been entombed by craven legislators.
Among the concepts in a bill draft I have obtained and posted below (with a summary) is the most important one of all: Real-time, year-round campaign contribution reporting.
Kudos, SOS.
Also:
----Prohibition on gifts
----Greater disclosure from third party groups
----Reporting ending fund balance (amazing this does not exist...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: VICTOR JOECKS OF NPRI AND FORMER SPEAKER BARBARA BUCKLEY ON THE FORECLOSURE MEDIATION PROGRAM
DAYS SINCE HARRY REID HAS BEEN ON FACE TO FACE: 624
DAYS UNTIL ELECTION DAY: 35
DAYS UNTIL EARLY VOTING BEGINS: 18
DAYS UNTIL CD4 DEBATE ON F2F: 2
DAYS UNTIL U.S. SENATE DEBATE ON F2F: 13
DAYS UNTIL CD3 DEBATE ON F2F: 22
DAYS UNTIL THE TEEN CAN AFFECT THE POLITICAL WORLD: 282
Good morning, everyone. So this...