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The Associated Press Article Launched: 10/12/2008 11:04:30 AM PDT LAS VEGAS—A newspaper poll measuring the presidential race says Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain are about even in Nevada, with Obama up two percentage points over his Republican rival. The numbers released Sunday by the Las Vegas Review-Journal show that 47 percent of likely voters say they would vote for Obama, while 45 percent say they will vote for McCain. The difference between the candidates is within the poll's margin of error of 4 percentage points.

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Fresh reports of voter registration irregularities involving ACORN cropped up from Florida to Pennsylvania yesterday - as John McCain's campaign tried to link Barack Obama to the activities of the left-leaning group.

I think this says it all Thank you, Mark Gregg, wherever and whoever you are. Dear Mr. Obama, It is October 2, 2008. My name is Mark Gregg. I am a 50 something conservative white male. I have followed your campaign closely, including the speeches you and others made at the democratic national convention. I am respectfully providing you with seven simple (probably shallow) reasons why I could never vote for you. I believe my opinion is shared by many people. While there may not be quite enough to prevent you from becoming president of this nation, I do think...

As the investigation of voter registration applications continues, the Nevada Department of Corrections said today that it was unaware of any voter fraud when it asked a contractor to stop allowing inmates to work as canvassers. The Corrections Department sent out a statement today that said on July 31 the department learned inmates from the Casa Grande Transitional Housing Facility in Las Vegas were conducting vote registrations. The inmates, put to work through contractor Choices Group, were participating in a work release program that provides job development and placement services for the department's re-entry program. The contractor had sent 59...

For the past several weeks, Republican operatives have been stepping up their efforts in critical swing states claiming voter registration groups have been engaged in a massive voter fraud effort in an attempt to influence the outcome of November’s presidential election. The allegations took on a new sense of urgency Tuesday when law enforcement authorities in Nevada raided the offices of The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), an organization that advocates voter registration and participation among low-income people and minorities.

Bonnie Smith-Greathouse, right, the head organizer for Nevada’s Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now, chants with staff members and volunteers outside their offices in Las Vegas on Tuesday. The Nevada Secretary of State’s office has accused the organization of voter fraud and seized documents from the office. They chanted, “Who are we? ACORN! What do we want? Justice! When do we want it? Now!”

Thousands of allegedly fake voter registrations by a nationwide organization are being investigated. At least nine states are reviewing voter paperwork, and Allegheny County police are looking into similar accusations. Employees of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, commonly known as ACORN, are under investigation in Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin since local election officials started noticing irregularities among the thousands of registrations submitted by ACORN. The ACORN organizer in one state said the organization had no way of checking all registrations. Officials in Missouri, a hard-fought jewel in the presidential...

US election officials believe they have uncovered massive attempted voter fraud less than a month before the country goes to the polls to choose its new president. Eleven separate investigations have now been launched into a voter registration group called the Association of Community Organisations for Reform – or Acorn. The authorities believe they may have duplicated voter forms, employed convicts to register people and even stolen the names of the American football team the Dallas Cowboys in order to create fake voters. The suspicions started when authorities in Las Vegas raided the organisation's offices, removing eight computer hard drives...

Yesterday, the Las Vegas offices of the Association of Community Organizations (ACORN) was raided by Nevada State Agents. ACORN is an organization that works to get low income people to vote. The Nevada Secretary of State's office said that the investigators were looking for evidence of voter fraud. ACORN Has Been Implicated In Similar Schemes In 14 Other States - Including Ohio, Where A Worker Traded Crack Cocaine For Fraudulent Registrations." So, what does this have to do with Barack Obama and his possible withdrawal as the Standard Bearer of his Party? To find out the answer to that we...

<p>Officials in Missouri, a hard-fought jewel in the presidential race, are sifting through possibly hundreds of questionable or duplicate voter-registration forms submitted by an advocacy group that has been accused of election fraud in other states.</p> <p>Charlene Davis, co-director of the election board in Jackson County, where Kansas City is, said the fraudulent registration forms came from the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN. She said they were bogging down work Wednesday, the final day Missourians could register to vote.</p>

A Nevada voter-fraud task force Tuesday raided the state headquarters of a Democrat-allied organization that works to get low-income people to vote, setting off a skirmish over efforts to expand the electorate on behalf of Sen. Barack Obama. Authorities searched the Las Vegas office of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, which is accused of submitting multiple voter registrations with duplicate and false names, including names of former Dallas Cowboys players. Bob Walsh, a spokesman for Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller, a Democrat, whose office leads the task force, stressed that ACORN was not charged...

A handful of inmates at Casa Grande had been convicted of identity theft-type crimes and were hired as canvassers by ACORN. Read the devastating affidavit at right. Read ACORN affidavit

Nevada state authorities seized records and computers Tuesday from the Las Vegas office of an organization that tries to get low-income people registered to vote, after fielding complaints of voter fraud. Bob Walsh, spokesman for the Nevada secretary of state's office, told FOXNews.com the raid was prompted by ongoing complaints about "erroneous" registration information being submitted by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, also called ACORN....

LAS VEGAS -- Nevada state authorities are raiding the Las Vegas headquarters of an organization that works to get low-income people to vote. A Nevada secretary of state's office spokesman said Tuesday that investigators are looking for evidence of voter fraud at the office of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, also called ACORN.

Nevada state authorities seized records and computers Tuesday from the Las Vegas office of an organization that tries to get low-income people registered to vote, after fielding complaints of voter fraud. Bob Walsh, spokesman for the Nevada secretary of state's office, told FOXNews.com the raid was prompted by ongoing complaints about "erroneous" registration information being submitted by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, also called ACORN. The group was submitting the information through a voter sign-up drive known as Project Vote. "Some of them used nonexistent names, some of them used false addresses and some of them were...

LAS VEGAS, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- Nevada authorities said Tuesday they raided the Las Vegas offices of the controversial voter-registration activist group, ACORN. The Secretary of State's Office confirmed to the Las Vegas Review-Journal that a search warrant was served at the ACORN office as part of a probe into suspected voter registration fraud. The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, has been under withering attack from the Republican Party for allegedly signing up unqualified voters in order to boost Democratic presidential candidate Barrack Obama. ACORN has stated that while it indeed targets low-income voters, it is...

State officials search ACORN office in voter registration fraud probe Agents with the state attorney general's and secretary of state's offices served a search warrant this morning on the new ACORN headquarters. The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now office is located at 953 E. Sahara Ave.

One does start to wonder just how massive the Democratic voter fraud effort will be - and whether it will be enough to tip the election to Obama: As we fly headfirst into election 2008, it is worth noting how big Nevada figures in the outcome. Our measly five electoral votes are not only up for grabs, they could be the difference. There’s no greater proof of that than how many times the presidential candidates have been to Nevada — and not just in the population centers of Las Vegas and Reno. By my count, Sen. Barack Obama’s been to...

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Jurors who convicted O.J. Simpson of armed robbery and kidnapping said Sunday that they did not trust witness testimony and instead relied on recordings and other documented evidence to convict the former football star. It might have been a waste for prosecutors to give plea deals to several Simpson co-defendants in exchange for their testimony, since the jury did not rely on it, foreman Paul Connelly said. Seven members of the 12-person jury agreed to the extraordinary news conference two nights after the verdict was announced because they said they were being hounded by reporters. They...

LOOSE LIPS CAN BUFFET BLIMPS. That was clear last week when some remarks by a senator raised fears about the health of big insurers -- including MetLife, owner of the famed dirigible. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D.-Nev.), in pressing for passage of the financial bailout bill, claimed that a well-known insurer was on the verge of bankruptcy. Insurance stocks plunged, with MetLife (ticker: MET) falling some 15%. The company said Reid's remarks didn't apply to it, and the senator's spokesman said he misspoke.

Text of the letter I rec'd from Rep. Dean Heller: September 30, 2008 Thank you for contacting me in opposition to the proposed federal financial bailout included in H.R. 3997, the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. I appreciate your thoughts on this important issue, and want you to now that I agree with you. I voted against the bailout bill for a number of reasons, but most importantly I opposed this bill in defense of taxpayers and Nevada families. I could not in good conscience put Nevada's taxpayers on the hook for the foolish excesses of Wall Street. This...

As we fly headfirst into election 2008, it is worth noting how big Nevada figures in the outcome. Our measly five electoral votes are not only up for grabs, they could be the difference. There's no greater proof of that than how many times the presidential candidates have been to Nevada -- and not just in the population centers of Las Vegas and Reno. By my count, Sen. Barack Obama's been to Elko three times, and he even granted the editor of the Elko Daily Free Press a one-on-one, sit-down interview. Elko? Three times? If anything tells you how tight...

LAS VEGAS -- Jury finds O.J. Simpson guilty in Las Vegas armed robbery-kidnapping trial.

OJ Simpson jury to announce decision tonight in Las Vegas at 10pm Pacific.

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Summary of press conference by Mammoth Lakes Sheriff: Aircraft crash site found near Mammoth Lakes, CA. NTSB Confirms that the N number of the aircraft matches the missing adventurer's plane. Wreckage found about 1/4 mile from the location where Fossett's ID and other items where found. No remains were found in the aircraft. The aircraft appeared to a flown into the side of a hill.

NEITHER of our Senators are up for re-election this year. Reid (D-NV) is up in 2010, Ensign (R-NV) is up in 2012. Please take the time to call their offices and urge them to vote NO on the bailout bill! Specifically, please contact Sen. John Ensign and make sure he is voting NO. Not one Republican vote for this monstrosity! Senator John Ensign Washington D.C. Office 119 Russell Senate Building Washington, D.C. 20510 Phone: (202) 224-6244 Fax: (202) 228-2193 TDD: (202) 224-7638 Las Vegas Office 333 Las Vegas Boulevard South, Suite 8203 Las Vegas, Nevada 89101 Phone: (702) 388-6605 Fax:...

OK - I'm about to call DishNetwork and give them a piece of my mind. However, I'm running out of pieces to give. I was flipping through my channel guide on DishNetwork and what did I find? An entire freakin' channel on 0bama. Channel 73 on DishNetwork is now OBAMA. Looks like all it is doing is playing over and over and over "Barack Obama's Plan for America".

Veterans in Politics Talk Show Introduces John Hambrick and Don Woolbright LIVE on www.AllTalkRadio.net October 4: John Hambrick Republican candidate for Nevada State Assembly, District 2: Don Woolbright Independent candidate for Nevada State Assembly, District 5: "Veterans In Politics" is a weekly radio show produced by the Veterans In Politics International and hosted by Steve Sanson. The "Veterans In Politics" show is live every Saturday 2:05 PM Pacific Time you can call in and speak to the guest or/and host at (702) 942-7371.

The head of the Nevada Nuclear Projects Agency has resigned in the midst of a scandal about unauthorized pay hikes for his staff. Bob Loux, 59, has held the post for 23 years. He has been the point man in the state's effort to derail a federal plan to create a nuclear waste depository at Yucca Flats, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported."It's clear to me now this issue of my employment and other relatedissues have become too big of a distraction to the overall effort," Loux said.Former U.S. Sen. Richard Bryan, head of the Nuclear Projects Commission, accepted Loux's resignation...

September 30, 2008 Presidential Ballots State McCain Obama Other Undecided Nevada: McCain leads 49%-47% North Carolina: McCain leads: 49%-46% Virginia: McCain leads (49%-46%)

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"..removed from her post Saturday, after she said the Democratic Party made black people "dependent on the government." "I'm very much afraid that the Democratic Party is going to do the same thing that they did with the African-American culture and make them all dependent on the government and we don't want that," she said.

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- The spokeswoman for the Republican Party in Nevada's most populous county was fired Saturday, after she said the Democratic Party made black people "dependent on the government." Didi Lima, the Clark County GOP communications director, also was removed from her volunteer role as a Hispanic community liaison for Republican John McCain's presidential campaign over the remarks made earlier in the day while working at a McCain campaign booth. "We don't want (Hispanics) to become the new African-American community," Lima told The Associated Press. "And that's what the Democratic Party is going to do to them, create...

Senator John McCain was on a roll. In a room reserved for high-stakes gamblers at the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut, he tossed $100 chips around a hot craps table. When the marathon session ended around 2:30 a.m., the Arizona senator and his entourage emerged with thousands of dollars in winnings. A lifelong gambler, Mr. McCain takes risks, both on and off the craps table. He was throwing dice that night not long after his failed 2000 presidential bid, in which he was skewered by the Republican Party’s evangelical base, opponents of gambling. Mr. McCain was betting at a casino...

Northern Nevada Freepers, please call Rep. Dean Heller’s office regarding the bailout: 202-225-6155 He shouldn’t sign the bailout bill unless all the following criteria are met: 1. NO PORK / EARMARKS 2. CUT OR ELIMINATE CAPITAL GAINS TAXES 3. NO NEW TAXES OR INCREASED TAXES 4. CREDIT DERIVATIVES MARKET REFORMS

NOT ONE PENNY FOR ACORNLindsey Graham: "And this deal that’s on the table now is not a very good deal. Twenty percent of the money that should go to retire debt that will be created to solve this problem winds up in a housing organization called ACORN that is an absolute ill-run enterprise, and I can’t believe we would take money away from debt retirement to put it in a housing program that doesn’t work." READ: Inside Obama's ACORN WRITE/PHONE/FAX NOW ACORN VOTE FRAUD MAP: ACORN Suspected of Voter Fraud State Year Details AR 1998 A contractor with ACORN-affiliated...

Several groups are beginning to release voter guides for the upcoming Presidential election. These can be printed and used in church bulletins, etc. National Right to Life: English version: http://nrlc.org/Election2008/comparison0909084c.pdf Spanish verson: http://nrlc.org/Election2008/comparisonHISPANIC.pdf Also, from American Family Association HTML version: http://www.afa.net/08VG/index.html PDF version: http://www.afa.net/pdfs/08VG_print.pdf

 Washington, DC—Nevada Senator Harry Reid delivered the following statement today at a hearing before the Commerce Committee regarding the safety and security dangers associated with the proposal to ship 77,000 tons of nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain.  Both Reid and fellow Nevada Senator John Ensign spoke about the Department of Energy's unpreparedness to begin a massive nuclear waste shipping campaign.  Below are his remarks as prepared for delivery: "I want to thank Chairman Inouye, Senator Hutchison, and the members of the Committee for scheduling this important hearing.  It has been a long time since the Senate has looked closely at plans...

Extreme Financial Crises in the State of Nevada! In a time of extreme financial crisis in the State of Nevada those most critical of the Governor and other elected officials fail to be looking in those areas most responsible for wasteful spending. The first person that comes to mind is Jim Rodgers. Rodgers continually asks for more money for education, but when was the last time he asked one of his reporters to investigate the Clark County School District and the rampant wasteful spending? In what appears to be a case of “school board gone wild”, the school district keeps...

Here is Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on the credit crisis, "No one knows what to do. We are in new territory here." Moving forward, however, Washington might want to crack open some history books and examine just how bad policy from Washington turned an economic downturn into the Great Depression. Here are handy tips for what not to do: 1) Close the banks. This is the biggie--not letting the financial system disintegrate. 2) Raise taxes. Another classic. The Revenue Act of 1932 was at the time the largest peacetime tax increase in American history. The top rate, for instance,...

JOHN W. SCHUTT, Jr. ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­Candidate for School Trustee, District E MEDIA RELEASE September 19, 2008 CAT Bus to Replace School Bus Clark County School District Works out Busing Agreement with CAT Bus On August 28, 2008 Clark County School Board members voted to authorize a contract with the Regional Transportation Commission to purchase Citizens Area Transit bus passes for students for an approximate total cost of $114,000.00, effective September 1, 2008, through August 31, 2009. Several concerned citizens stood up to speak about the safety concerns and the liabilities associated with busing students on CAT buses. Trustee Edwards spoke about...

In an appearance in Nevada, anti-gun presidential candidate Barack Obama told his followers: "I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face," he said. "And if they tell you that, 'Well, we're not sure where he stands on guns.' I want you to say, 'He believes in the Second Amendment.' Barack Obama has gone beyond lying about his long anti-gun record. Now he is inciting...

Nevada Senator Harry Reid this week joined low-income families and Medicare recipients to discuss continued Republican blocking of legislation to lower the high costs of living and to help Americans struggling to make ends meet. Nevadans continue to struggle as Republicans squander every opportunity to help revive the economy. As Nevadans face a weakened economy, record-high gas prices and increasing foreclosures, Republicans are blocking important help for the current economic crisis. “We’ve given Bush-McCain Republicans every opportunity to address the biggest challenges Americans face, but they have squandered every opportunity,” said Reid adding, “Think of all the good we could...

"Authorities are sweeping the Truckee area looking for explosives that were reported stolen from near Interstate 80 early Wednesday morning. The Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of those responsible for the theft of the explosives, or for the recovery of the material. “Anytime explosives are stolen there is a concern,” said Nevada County Sheriff Keith Royal, explaining the federal agency’s response and reward offer. Royal said the vault containing the explosives was “forcibly entered.”

Appearing on C-SPAN last weekend I mentioned that Barack Obama had opposed the Born Alive Infants Protection Act when he was an Illinois state senator — a position he has attempted to deny or obfuscate ever since. The liberal blogger who appeared on the program with me erupted with indignation. She didn’t deny that Obama had opposed the bill. She denied, hotly, that babies are ever born alive after an attempted abortion. Since I have actually met Gianna Jessen, who survived an attempted abortion, I invited viewers to contact me directly if they wanted evidence. My inbox has been bursting....

Reader Poll Which presidential candidate is the best choice for those concerned about Wall Street and the economy? John McCain (Republican) Barack Obama (Democratic) Ralph Nader (independent) Bob Barr (Libertarian) Cynthia McKinney (Green Party) View results

According to at least one press report, Obama is now telling supporters to get nasty with Republicans and independent voters: "I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face," he said. A new kind of politician, indeed.

(09-17) 18:57 PDT LAS VEGAS, (AP) -- Barack Obama sharpened his attacks on John McCain and mocked the Republican's recent calls for reform in two stops in Nevada on Wednesday after days of listening to nervous supporters fret about the Democrat's chances of taking the White House. "Sen. McCain bragged about how as chairman of the Commerce Committee in the Senate, he had oversight of every part of the economy. Well, all I can say to Sen. McCain is, 'Nice job. Nice job,'" Obama said at a rally at a baseball stadium in Las Vegas. "Where is he getting these...