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Assemblywoman Lucy Flores is hardly known by Nevada voters but has a compelling life story and “would have a good chance of winning an election against (state Sen.) Mark Hutchison,” according to a national pollster who surveyed the lieutenant governor’s race for her.
Geoff Garin tested positives and negatives for Flores and Hutchison, who still has a primary with Sue Lowden to overcome, and found that she would lose, 41-35, in an initial heat but would nip Hutchison, 46-43, after voters were...
I am trying to help the Republicans land the 2016 national convention in Vegas, but they are so….helpless.
As I have previously declared, I want my city to get the convention because it would finally get rid of all the Rodney Dangerfield references, because it would force everyone to pronounce the state’s name correctly and, well, because it would be good for a Nevada journalist with a television program. Not necessarily in that order.
But why, oh why are these people trying to sabotage my...
Good morning, everyone. Really, is this what it has come to, where Twitter gets excited (hyperbole alert) by a picture of Sue Lowden with Brian Sandoval? I know it’s the slow season, dear Flashees, but is this grammatically and politically incorrect photo of the governor with the foe of his anointed choice for lieutenant governor really indicative of anything? Do people expect Sandoval to just ignore Lowden? Do you people KNOW Gov. Sunny?
On the other hand, kudos to Lowden for finding a...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: We'll see.
DAYS UNTIL FILING FOR OFFICE OPENS IN 2014: 91
DAYS UNTIL PRIMARY ELECTION DAY 2014: 190
DAYS UNTIL GENERAL ELECTION DAY 2014: 337
Good morning, everyone. Hope you all have recovered from your tryptophan haze and the non-stop football games to focus on what’s really important to consider during the holiday season: Who is doing what in politics. I am still recovering from that amazing Michigan loss...
Good morning, everyone. Was I the only one who noticed how gingerly Steve Wynn addressed web poker on Monday, telling reporters his pal, Sheldon Adelson, was like the folks trying to stop alcohol consumption during Prohibition. He made the genie-out-of-the-bottle argument without attacking Adelson, saying he was right to be concerned about controls but that web gaming is inevitable. Sometimes friends disagree.
This will be the last Morning Flash of the holiday week. I wish everyone a Happy...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: Ex-gubernatorial chief of staff Robin Reedy, who is challenging Assemblyman Jim Wheeler
DAYS UNTIL FILING FOR OFFICE OPENS IN 2014: 98
DAYS UNTIL PRIMARY ELECTION DAY 2014: 197
DAYS UNTIL GENERAL ELECTION DAY 2014: 344
Good morning, everyone. I had the honor Saturday evening to emcee the annual Anti-Defamation Dinner at Caesars, which had well over 500 people attending. It was quite the eclectic group of...
Good morning, everyone. Unlike many people of my generation, I have no memory of where I was 50 years ago today when John F. Kennedy was assassinated. I have tried to remember, but---nothing. Not even a vague recollection of shock or sadness from my parents. I was a young child, but somehow I feel like I should remember, should be more connected to that day. Beyond the reality and the mythology, though, is a shared sense of loss of something – if not innocence, which I think is too cliché and...
Good morning, everyone. Thanks to Sheldon Adelson, web gaming exploded into the national news starting Wednesday, with an absolute evisceration in USA Today followed by new AGA chief Geoff Freeman’s contrary view. Don’t underestimate Adelson’s commitment on this issue: Two of his top operatives, Andy Abboud and Robert Uithoven, are in Arizona at the Republican Governor’s Association, handing out anti-web gaming propaganda. I hear they are getting a good reception.
The great Chuck Todd focused...