Reid machine keeps humming in Nevada, even in his retirement [barf]`

Associated Press ^ | November 18, 2018 | Michelle L. Price and Nicholas Riccardi

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Harry Reid may no longer lead Senate Democrats in Washington, but the political machine he built in Nevada has Republicans on the run.

Democrats romped up and down the state in the Nov. 6 midterm elections, ousting Republican Sen. Dean Heller, winning races for governor and lieutenant governor, and expanding their state legislative majorities.

The shellacking was 15 years in the making, the culmination of a long-term plan to shift a battleground into the Democratic column. Democrats elsewhere will work to replicate Nevada for years to come. Republicans were humbled.

“These things can change, but right now Nevada is a blue state,” said Mark Hutchison, the state’s outgoing Republican lieutenant governor. “There’s no doubt that the Democratic Party has done a very good job in Nevada of getting out the vote and creating an infrastructure that is formidable.”

The political mastermind behind the Democrats’ ascendency is 78-year-old Harry Reid, the soft-spoken former Senate majority leader who served for decades in Washington before his retirement last year. Despite being treated for pancreatic cancer, Reid has remained active in Nevada politics.

Reid started building the state party for the 2004 election, when Nevada was in a tug of war between its Western libertarian roots and the Democratic leanings of recent transplants. The party had no permanent staff in nonelection years; now it has double digits. …

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AP striking a highly partisan tone here.

[ealgeone]

Well, it sure seems they would be correct at this point.

[Olog-hai]

Any investigations as to the actual machinations?

[Boomer]

So AP is cheering the political destruction of Nevada? Interesting.

Of course we already knew the AP is just another propaganda mouthpiece for the DNC but it’s nice they prove it to everyone so there can be no doubt.

[Olog-hai]

Jumping up and down too.

Wonder how history is going to eventually describe this crescendo of blatantly biased “news”.

[Impy]

Mark Hutchison, the state’s outgoing Republican lieutenant governor. “There’s no doubt that the Democratic Party has done a very good job in Nevada of getting out the vote and creating an infrastructure that is formidable.”

And you were twiddling your thumbs? Nevada is full of non-college Whites, TURN THEM OUT and outvote the Mexicans.

[Glad2bnuts]

These things are the result of the McCain Feingold CFR, and Georgie boy Bush refusing to veto the bill. Instead allowing it to go on to the USSC where he said it would be rejected. The political PACs, and the ability of a candidate to bank donations, and spread them around is what keeps the powerful in power.

[Nateman]

The Constitution of Nevada has a clause added by the voters of Nevada requiring an application for a convention of states (COS) under Article V. It was shortly after the RATs seized power in the State Legislatures that all such application's were withdrawn. It's the RAT party that is clearly the most scared of a COS

[willk]

In her victory speech the first thing that the woman who beat Heller did was mouth off a list of unions to thank.

[rktman]

Yup, new senator, new “d” gov, new “d” Lt. Gov, new”d” AG. “D” controlled state house and one “d” short of having a supr majority in the senate. Pretty dang purple leaning heavily to blue. Yeah, Calvada will never be the same.