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Posted on 10/25/2012 11:38:30 AM PDT by KansasGirl
Incumbent Republican Dean Heller continues to earn 50% support against Democratic Congresswoman Shelley Berkley in Nevada’s U.S. Senate race.
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Nevada voters shows Heller with 50% of the vote to Berkley’s 45%. One percent (1%) prefers some other candidate, and four percent (4%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
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This is good news! Keep it coming!
President: Obama 50 Romney 48
Hmmm...split ballots. How could someone vote Obama for President and then vote R for Senate. Makes no sense.
Thats why I think Romney CAN win Nevada..but it will be very difficult because of the large illegal alien population and the massive voter fraud that is rampant over there. How do you think Harry Reid got elected..I had read stories about how his campaign staffers were passing out Best Buy gift cards to people if they voted for him
Can someone explain how the Republican in this race can be up by 5 and Romney is trailing in NV (both polls by Rasmussen)? What are the voter dynamics that explain this? It makes little sense to me.
Especially with the Mormon population in NV.
They probably just want to get rid of Reed as Senate Majority Leader.
There is no sense to it, 2012 will be such an utter historic wipeout for the President and his party, it will be in texbooks for years to come. Anyone who beleives its going to be close is deluded or a closet Bammy sycophant.
The split makes no sense, it shows a probably too large sample of rats who are so dumb they don’t know who the two senate candidates are and just pick a name. As for the demographic battle for Nevada I think it is going to end up much more favorable for Romney than the rats (and their MSM lackeys) want to admit. Mormons already vote in high #s and overwhelmingly GOP, but Romney should gain some additional Mormon votes from increased Mormon turnout and the fact the handful of Mormon Democrats may be inclined to switch for him. The union power in Clark County/Vegas may be weaker this time because (A) the economy sucks and there are less Union workers (B) the economy sucks and despite the union strongarm tactics workers are being told flat out by their bosses (Wynn, Aldeson etc) that Romney means more jobs and Obama means people are going to get canned. Third good thing for Nevada is the number of illegals, migrants working in housing, construction, & domestic work is way down. They have gone home or gone where the jobs are. The overall Nevada demographic will be much friendlier to Romney in 12 than McCain in 08.
Go look at Wikipedia for all the NV senators since 1864 and you'll basically see that only death or extreme corruption can remove a Nevadan US senator from office once they're in. As soon as they get in, all the state industry (mining, gaming) lines up behind them forevermore. Also, Nevada voters realize that US Senators acquire favors from horse-traded votes that eventually come due to the benefit of our state -- we hope. It matters little to Nevada what we trade for, since we have nothing to give but our Capitol Hill votes, only thing that matters is what we get in return. If they lose their seat in the US Senator because they failed to be re-elected, then something really out of the ordinary occurred to make it so.
This is the reason that Nevadans weren't likely to give up a Senate Majority Leader for some brand new would-be junior Senator from the minority party, like Sharron Angle.
Basically, anyone not already representing Nevada in the US Senate is monkey meat. Dean Heller was chosen by Governor Sandoval to replace John Ensign who only resigned after losing a court battle to keep evidence out of a Senate ethics violation investigation. Had Ensign won that court battle, he'd probably still be a US Senator from NV. Sure, he probably paid his mistress with public funds to stay quiet about the affair, but in NV that probably wasn't enough to yank him out of the Senate: The reasoning being that he had ten plus years of favors up on Capitol Hill saved up for our state, and some extramarital affair alone wasn't going to change any voter's minds in our state where prostitution is legal for crying out loud.
To help prove my point about how Nevadans just don't change senators, go look at the tenure that US Senators from Nevada have served in office at the Wikipedia at the link I gave above. Notice how US Senators stay in office for 20+ years until they die. Notice how the pictures of the Senators go from Hi-Def megapixel portraits in the modern age, then to the 1970s, to black and white pics from the 1950s, to grainy Jazz-age B&W pics where the Senator is dressed like Woodrow Wilson, to grainy Daguerrotype photos of the US Senator from Nevada wearing mutton-chop sideburns like his picture was taken by Matthew Brady right after Gettysburg. See how the time passes 100+ years in only a handful of portraits?
Nevada Senators typically die holding office, or don't seek re-election because they're 92 years old and it's time to call it quits. Anything else is a rare exception.
Another thing to point out is that all of those long serving senators basically have every significant street, town, dam, bridge, airport, body of water, highway, mountain peak, and state park in this state named after them. There isn't much of anything left in the state that doesn't have a Nevadan Senator's name attached to it.
Lastly, go watch 'Godfather II' or 'Casino'. Tells you all you need to know.
Excellent commentary on NV political dynamics.
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