Posted on 08/26/2016 5:10:17 PM PDT by mandaladon
Last week, I noted that Nevada polling for Donald Trump painted a brighter picture for Republicans than national numbers suggested. The missteps that drove Trump’s numbers down nationwide didn’t seem to have impacted his standing in Nevada at all, and it appeared Hillary Clinton could lose a state Barack Obama won easily twice. Yesterday, Jon Ralston offered an in-depth look into the state of the race for Politico, as well as the fight to fill Harry Reid’s soon-to-be-vacant seat in the Senate. Ralston offered Republicans more good news than they’ve heard in a while, although it may not last:
In other battleground states, where Donald Trump is trailing his Democratic rival by large margins, Trump has proved problematic for down ballot candidates like Mark Kirk in Illinois and Kelly Ayotte in New Hampshire, who are taking pains to keep him at arms length on the trail. But in Nevada the volatile and unorthodox GOP presidential nominee has kept the gap with Hillary Clinton within the margin of error. As a result, Rep. Joe Heck, the Republican Senate candidate who is battling Reid’s chosen candidate Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto, has not treated the brash mogul as if he is a leper.
Could a state with a robust Hispanic population, which may make up a fifth of the November electorate, and a significant Democratic voter registration edge, which gave Barack Obama easy victories in 2008 and 2012, fall to Trump? Are Nevada voters so independent that Republicans could snatch the one seat they covet the most this cycle, the one held since 1986 by the man they love to hate? Could Republicans maintain their hold on the senate by dealing the retiring Reid a stunning blow to his cherished legacy?
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Nevada will Kick Hillary’s fat butt.
“In other battleground states, where Donald Trump is trailing his Democratic rival by large margins, Trump has proved problematic for down ballot candidates like Mark Kirk in Illinois....”
Mark Kirk is super anti-Trump. He lost a lot of votes with that and his voting more like a Democrat than a Republican much lest a conservative.
Nevada is actually a pretty conservative state. All of the trouble comes from Vegas where there’s a heavy union presence.
My dh is from Nevada and he says it’s entirely winnable for Trump.
This would be a great pickup for Trump!
Here in Reno I am seeing more and more Trump stickers on cars. Seems every day now someone comments, honks, waves about the one on my car. Still absolutely none for Clinton. Sanders’ stickers have disappear (and we’re not replaced with Clinton, which is a great sign).
If he doesn't win this election, by the phone calls I'm making and have made, it's voter fraud...that's how it is turning out...people don't like Hillary and they have no hold backs to let you know that...
I remember before Trump went into Ohio in the primaries, the people were for Trump, but said that they felt they had to vote for Kasich because he was their Governor...I haven't had any calls to Ohio yet, but I bet Ohio will be Trump country also...
So much about polit9icsis cultural and Nevada has a huge population of expat New Yorkers and New Jerseyans etc. They like the way he talks and swaggers just like a native New Yorker.
He'd struggle to win re-election if John the Baptist were at the head of the ticket.
So is Ayotte - After campaigning as a Tea Party-associated “change” in that state, she has been a reliably GROPe - democrat-friendly assistant to ANY publicity that Reid/Oboma/Hillary/Pelosi needs.
Add McConnell and Bohner/Ryan to that mix.
A near-universal FUDC! attitude is NOT going to go Ayotte’s way. At best, they will not vote for the democrat either.
If Trump had been a coal miner, that would help him in West Virginia. If he was a corn farmer, that would help him in Iowa. Trump owns casinos, that helps him in Nevada, just as it hurts him in Utah.
If Trump had been a coal miner, that would help him in West Virginia. If he was a corn farmer, that would help him in Iowa. Trump owns casinos, that helps him in Nevada, just as it hurts him in Utah.
If he took it up the ass he’d win California!
Stopped reading right there. Why bother with an author who can't even get the party name correct.
The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. Tracing its heritage back to Thomas Jefferson and James Madison's Democratic-Republican Party, the modern-day Democratic Party was founded around 1828, making it the world's oldest active party.
Unless of course you think they should be required to reveal they are actually Communists/Marxists.
This is very good, NV helps offset PA.
Must win: OH, FL.
If he wins those two with NV, IA and NH...
...it’s a tie 269-269.
And Ill. is not a battleground State.
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