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      TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: A special Veterans day eve show DAYS UNTIL THE GREATEST LEGISLATIVE SESSION EVER BEGINS: 84 DAYS UNTIL THE 2016 election: 729       Good morning, everyone. Happy 31 to me. I am thankful every year at this time for how lucky I have been, with a brother who gave me the greatest gift I have ever received. With all the small people I have to deal with so often in what I do, Geoff Ralston puts it all in perspective. Thanks, brother. With Thanksgiving just a few...
Good morning, everyone. I want to be optimistic as Republicans paint the capital town red in a few months. I really do. And I amcrossing my fingers. By the way, besides the 2016 campaign, the municipal campaigns start right now, too. Tick Segerblom vs. Michael McDonald for Lois Tarkanian’s seat, if she doesn’t run, sounds delicious. But even better is what two insiders told me: Ex-Mayor Oscar Goodman nosing around about running for the council. Ha. Ha. Ha. Forget how ridiculous that notion is...
      TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: GOP consultant Ryan Erwin DAYS UNTIL THE GREATEST LEGISLATIVE SESSION EVEFR BEGINS: 88       Good morning, everyone. The brave new red world of Carson City, one we have not seen in the history of the state, is shaping up. The Senate Republicans wasted no time organizing, and the matrix is fascinating, with newly minted Majority Leader Michael Roberson signaling he wants a tax reform/package deal by taking the revenue committee and making Ben Kieckhefer a...
      TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: What's Your Point? DAYS UNTIL HARRY REID'S RE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN BEGINS: 0 DAYS UNTIL THE GREATEST LEGISLATIVE SESSION EVEFR BEGINS: 89       Good morning, everyone. I told you I saw red people. I hope the Republicans up and down the ticket will give thanks today to the big motivator, the one that drove people to the polls, the 400,000 (!) vote-getting monster. Yes, they should thank---the margin tax. Or NSEA for putting it on the ballot. I kid, I kid....
Good morning, everyone. It ends today, dear Flashees, barring controversy in the Assembly or potential recounts and cries of fraud (I fear the worst from some of these races). I’m old enough to remember when we thought Sue Lowden and Lucy Flores had a chance against U.S. Senate candidate Mark Hutchison, when the chances of the Republicans taking the Assembly were only in Hickeyesque dreams, when Ross Miller and Kate Marshall seemed heavy favorites, when the RJ at least pretended to be a...
Good morning, everyone. Amid all the talk of control of the U.S. Senate, last night John Oliver did an extended piece on state legislatures.. He had lots of clips of the crazies who populate state capitals, but not one of our Gang of 63. Based on whats about to happen Tuesday, I think we may provided Oliver some fodder should he address the subject again. Premium subscribers were treated Sunday to my insiders giving their predictions for Tuesday. There was some consensus Mark Hutchison in a...
Good morning, everyone. Happy sesquicentennial Nevada Day! It’s also Halloween. Will it be a trick or a treat for the Democrats on this last day of early voting? Did I really just write that? You know one question that has been bouncing around in my head all week, one that won’t leave me alone, one that just nags, nags, nags at me: Why in the world did I ever start that tradition of predicting election outcomes the Sunday before the election? If I’m not careful, this year my lifetime...
     TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: R&R's Pete Ernaut.  DAYS UNTIL GENERAL ELECTION DAY 2014: 5 DAYS UNTIL HARRY REID'S RE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN BEGINS: 6       Good morning, everyone. Bob Stoldal fired me once. As usual, he was right: I was terrible. But in the serpentine paths of both of our careers, we would be joined again many years later at a fledgling cable station called Las Vegas ONE, where he would shepherd “Face to Face” and then later, at the Jim Rogers empire, “...
Good morning, everyone. If you talk to a Democrat who knows anything about anything these days, he or she wants to talk about 2016 (“We’ll fix everything then”), not 2014. Might be able to reverse legislative losses and CD4 if it's gone, but not constitutional offices, which will be at midterm in '16. To quote a well-known Democrat about 2014, “The war is lost.” It’s just about how many casualties there will be, and who can be saved at this point. Will we be saying "Madame Chairwoman" to...
      TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: Uber wars. DAYS UNTIL GENERAL ELECTION DAY 2014: 7 DAYS UNTIL HARRY REID'S RE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN BEGINS: 8       Good morning, everyone. Yesterday was a disaster for the Democrats across the board on the eve of Bill Clinton’s visit designed to reanimate a corpse. Some details below, but the Republicans won by their largest margin yet in Clark County, extended their leads in those three key state Senate races and are now essentially tied in the...

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