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This week:
1. My column: Registration matters
2. Some FEC report nuggets
3. State of the Races (status quo)
MY COLUMN: REGISTRATION MATTERS
I recall a conversation late in 2012 with an operative working to get Mitt Romney Nevada’s six electoral votes. He was adamant that Romney, thanks to help from funding from Steve Wynn and Sheldon Adelson and a seasoned pro (Chris Carr) running the operation, had a better ground game than the GOP had had in years.
I had two...
A few years ago, I received a phone call from someone who had just attended the funeral of a Nevada political luminary.
He was in shock not because of the man’s death but because of what he had seen outside the church: A candidate was handing out campaign literature.
A funeral as a prime networking opportunity! If anything was emblematic about the shameless and shameful side of political life, that was it.
I was reminded of the incident as I read This Town, Timesman Mark Leibovich’s often...
As I have previously posted, Mark Leibovich managed to get some good stuff on Mitt Romney's tax returns from the majority leader in his new book, "This Town."
Leibovich, I think, is torn on Harry Reid: He sees him as antithetical to the slick phoniness of This Town but also possessed of a self-editing mechanism that could be switched on once in awhile. But Reid can, sometimes awkwardly, summon artifice in certain situations.
Leibovich, for an amateur Reidologist, gets him pretty well. He sees...
You make the call.
BuzzFeed (and the caption, with misspelled last name) says it's the guy doing the pounding. I say Harry Reid is the guy on the ropes. Isn't it obvious, folks?
UPDATE: Reid says he's the one standing.
I shall not rest until I find the truth!
I am a Reid Truther!
UPDATE TWO: Reid's favorite DREAMer has what I would call a smoking gun.
Highlighting how important Nevada's swing district is in the national picture and how immigration could be pivotal, the House Majority PAC has a new Spanish-language ad up against GOP Rep. Joe Heck.
Heck is one of only three GOP incumbents targeted by the ads -- the others are California Rep. Gary Miller and Colorado Rep. Mike Coffman.
Here's the English translation and the ad is below:
UNIVISION CLIP: Republicans in the Capitol and in private conversations forecast a 'slow death' for...