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* Unusually high turnout of 64.5%, when high turnout is 45% and average in the 30s.

Not true. In 2008, the total of registered voters in Nevada was about 1.45 million, and about 967,000 votes were cast. That's a turnout of about 66%. The turnout in the 2006 midterm election was about 59%.

That's based on what Red Steel had posted.

If these people were likely voters, why did they not get representation in ALL of the polls leading up the race? I understand you probably don't have the answer, and neither do I. Well, I have my suspicions...

Not true. In 2008, the total of registered voters in Nevada was about 1.45 million, and about 967,000 votes were cast. That's a turnout of about 66%. The turnout in the 2006 midterm election was about 59%.

Well if that's true, Nevada has exceptionally high turnout rate compared to the rest of the nation.

And yes, 2008 was a very high year for a presidential turnout nationwide, but historically speaking, Nevada numbers this year are way high compared to a good portion of past elections even against presidential years:

Here are presidential turnouts in a 60 year time frame:

1932, 52% ; 1936, 57%; 1940, 59%; 1944, 56%; 1948, 51%; 1952, 62%; 1956, 59%; 1960, 63%; 1964, 62%, 1968, 61%, 1972, 55%; 1976, 54%; 1980, 53%; 1984, 53%; 1988, 50%; 1992; 54%, and 1996; 49%.

Source: The Human Polity: A Comparative Introduction to Political Science; figure 6-1, page 198, which the book sources New York Times, November 5, 1992.

And the last Republican victory surge in the 1994 mid-term elections where they won 53 seats nationwide turnout was only 36%. I suppose the state of Nevada was in the 60 percentile in 1994 too?