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WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week’s questions:
1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week?
2. Most interesting thing you read or heard about Nevada politics this week?
3. Any thoughts on our Indy poll results so far? (Fine to say: It's too damn early, and it doesn't matter.)
4.What do you think the real-world impact will be of the NRA PAC for legislative candidates? Who should worry? Who should be happy?
5. Could Dean Heller's sudden epiphany that Biden is an illegitimate president get him back...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week’s questions:
1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week?
2. Most interesting thing you read or heard about Nevada politics this week?
3. Use your crystal ball: What will things look like here in six months on COVID, the economy, the races?
4. Who are the top three most ambitious pols in Nevada?
All but one insider who responded named Aaron Ford as most ambitious, not sure any or most meant it in a flattering way. A few mentioned Zach Conine, but in a nicer way...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week’s questions:
1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week?
2. Most interesting thing you read or heard about Nevada politics this week?
3. Thoughts on latest campaign reports released this week? Any surprises? Can Dem money stop potential statewide rout? I know it's early, but...
4. What person will have the greatest impact on Nevada elections this year and why?
A. Joe Biden
B. Steve Sisolak
C. Adam Laxalt
D. Catherine Cortez Masto
E. Someone else
5. What issue...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week’s questions:
1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week?
2. Most interesting thing you read or heard about Nevada politics this week?
3. Thoughts on campaign disclosure reports we have seen so far?
4. Rank in order of possibility:
Sam Brown beats Adam Laxalt
Dean Heller beats Joe Lombardo
Marilyn Kirkpatrick files for governor
Joey Gilbert wins the gov primary
Smart stuff, as always, from the insiders. Consensus MK won’t run for gov and that Lombardo made an...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week’s questions:
1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week?
2. Most interesting thing you read or heard about Nevada politics this week?
3. Sixty days until filing: Predictions on who files and who doesn't? State of GOP gov primary? Whatever else is on your mind about the elections? Expect any surprises?
4. You are king or queen of Nevada: What are the appropriate COVID policies right now, from vaccine mandates to school reopenings? Thoughts?
Smart, thoughtful...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week’s questions, end of the year edition:
1. Biggest political story of the year?
2. Biggest political nonstory of the year?
3. Most influential person in Nevada politics this year?
4. Least influential person in Nevada politics this year who appeared to be influential?
5. Biggest loser of the year in Nevada politics?
6. Stars born in 2021? Stars falling in 2021?
Last Sunday edition of 2021 and good stuff: Gov is always most powerful, some said; John...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week’s questions:
1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week?
2. Most interesting thing you read or heard about Nevada politics this week?
3. Put yourself in a Dem campaign adviser's place: What is your best advice to your candidates considering what are likely to be 2022 atmospherics?
4. Put yourself in a GOP campaign adviser's place: What is your best advice to your candidates considering what are likely to be 2022 atmospherics?
Multiple kudos for John Miller ad...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week’s questions:
1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week?
2. Most interesting thing you read or heard about Nevada politics this week?
3. Thoughts on the special and the maps and the aftermath? Winners and losers?
4. Ranked Choice Voting: Does it qualify? Does it pass? Is it a good idea? Does Roberson make a lot of money off it?
Good stuff from the insiders, with general agreement on the maps (although not universal) and a lot of different positions on RCV....
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week’s questions:
1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week?
2. Most interesting thing you read or heard about Nevada politics this week?
3. Thoughts on the maps and the special session? Did the Dems overreach? Will those maps or a reasonable facsimile pass? How long will the session last?
4. What will be true before the New Year? Rank in order of likelihood:
A. Jason Frierson will have been nominated as U.S. attorney. (Editor’s note: Sent Thursday before...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week’s questions:
1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week?
2. Most interesting thing you read or heard about Nevada politics this week?
3. Reaction to Jara firing, and does it really matter?
4. I have covered politics 35 years, and I have never been so depressed about the state of things. You are all smart, creative people: Is there a way out of it, a return if not to normalcy to some semblance thereof?
Thoughtful and depressing stuff from the insiders on the...