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Some nuggets to end your week:
Nugget No. 1 -- Gov. Brian Sandoval, now heading Team Nevada, sent out a pitch today for the man he endorsed but never seemed enthusiastic about:
"Washington is failing our state....We need to send Mitt Romney to the White House to get government out of the way of job creators, and to turn our state's economy around. Mitt is the right choice for getting our nation back on the right fiscal track."
See, that wasn't so hard, Gov. Sunny.
Nugget No. 2 -- SEIU and AFP,...
If you don't think we matter in the presidential race and Senate matrix, consider the latest on ad buys, with a whopping one from Crossroads (the Karl Rove group) at the top:
----How big is the Crossroads buy? $300,000 on one Vegas station for one week (Oct. 24-30). Extrapolate that!
----Majority PAC (help for Rep. Shelley Berkley) put down six figures for the last week.
----Priorities USA Action, the Obama-aligned SuperPAC, put down substantial buys, North and South, for the last push.
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TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: Planned Parenthood has become a presidential election flashpoint -- we'll have a regional leader
DAYS SINCE HARRY REID HAS BEEN ON FACE TO FACE: 641
DAYS UNTIL ELECTION DAY: 18
DAYS UNTIL EARLY VOTING BEGINS: 1
DAYS UNTIL CD3 DEBATE ON F2F: 5
DAYS UNTIL THE TEEN CAN AFFECT THE POLITICAL WORLD: 265
Good morning, everyone. We are now on the eve of early voting, and we will see signs right away whether...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: Benny Yerushalmi vs. Mark Hutchison for state Senate
DAYS SINCE HARRY REID HAS BEEN ON FACE TO FACE: 640
DAYS UNTIL ELECTION DAY: 19
DAYS UNTIL EARLY VOTING BEGINS: 2
DAYS UNTIL CD3 DEBATE ON F2F: 6
DAYS UNTIL THE TEEN CAN AFFECT THE POLITICAL WORLD: 266
Good morning, everyone. Yes, I have a newfound love of Reno. And it is beautiful up here. But when hotel Internet goes down, I love----nothing!
Rushing to...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: HHS boss Mike Willden
DAYS SINCE HARRY REID HAS BEEN ON FACE TO FACE: 639
DAYS UNTIL ELECTION DAY: 20
DAYS UNTIL EARLY VOTING BEGINS: 3
DAYS UNTIL CD3 DEBATE ON F2F: 7
DAYS UNTIL THE TEEN CAN AFFECT THE POLITICAL WORLD: 267
Good morning, everyone. Debate No. 2 is in the books and rarely have I seen a moment like that one on Libya – Barack Obama’s rehearsed high dudgeon followed by Mitt Romney’s tactical...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: PART TWO OF U.S SENATE DEBATE
DAYS SINCE HARRY REID HAS BEEN ON FACE TO FACE: 638
DAYS UNTIL ELECTION DAY: 21
DAYS UNTIL EARLY VOTING BEGINS: 4
DAYS UNTIL CD3 DEBATE ON F2F: 8
DAYS UNTIL THE TEEN CAN AFFECT THE POLITICAL WORLD: 268
Good morning, everyone. Quite the intense, lively, occasionally nasty U.S. Senate debate last night on “Ralston Reports,” with many sharp exchanges and tension during those long...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: CD1 hopeful Chris Edwards, feedback on Steve Wynn, Reality Check time
DAYS SINCE HARRY REID HAS BEEN ON FACE TO FACE: 637
DAYS UNTIL ELECTION DAY: 22
DAYS UNTIL EARLY VOTING BEGINS: 5
DAYS UNTIL CD3 DEBATE ON F2F: 9
DAYS UNTIL THE TEEN CAN AFFECT THE POLITICAL WORLD: 269
Good morning, everyone. Tonight’s the night you’ve been waiting for in the Nevada Senate race: One hour on “Ralston Reports” between Sen....
President Obama leads 51-43 in Nevada, according to a Mark Mellman poll taken this week for Americans United for Change.
AUFC is a liberal, union-funded group, which may give GOP folks ammunition. But Mellman has a good track record here.
Is he right? We'll find out.
Memo linked here.
Darren Littel, an RNC operative helping lead the GOP effort here, tweeted this on Thursday: "In #NV absentee ballots GOP outperforming reg numbers by 7%, Dems under performing by 2 points"
Wow. That sounds huge.
But, as always, context is called for.
Republicans nearly always beat Democrats in absentee ballots -- they did by a few points two and four years ago. And mail ballots are a small percentage of the overall vote.
Republicans can't match the Democratic ground game (unions, etc.), so...