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Nevada Republicans suffered a serious blow Wednesday when their first announced challenger to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was indicted on four counts of misappropriation and falsification of public records. The charges, handed down by a Clark County grand jury, accuse Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki of committing the crimes when he he was state treasurer. Krolicki's then-chief of staff, Kathryn Besser, was also indicted in the case. Krolicki could face a maximum of 16 years in prison on the counts, which revolve around the Treasurer's office bypassing budget controls on a statewide college savings program, according to an audit...

The Nevada Democratic Party and its affiliated unions did a great job turning out voters for the Nov. 4 general election and placing in the hands of many of those voters endorsement sheets "recommending" how they might vote -- all the way down the ballot to the supposedly "non-partisan" elections for judgeships, School Board, etc. The Democratic Party also had huge success with its sleazy million-dollar direct-mail campaign against Nevada state Sens. Joe Heck and Bob Beers, who they targeted based on growing Democratic registrations in Senate districts 5 and 6 -- the overall goal being to seat enough Democrats...

This is directly off of a flyer that the jackholes from the Sierra Club sent to every household in Vegas. On Global Warming they claim that Barack Obama... "Has a plan to cut global warming pollution 80% by 2050. Will help bring energy costs down by requiring polluters to pay for their pollution and refund that money to the consumers"WHAT THE FLYING F !?!?!?!?!?!I have a headache trying to make legitimate sense of this absolute garbage. Obviously "the polluters" are American utilities and industry. These liars are saying that when the cost of providing services and products goes up due...

Raggio, 81, a longtime Senate majority leader who was first elected to that body in 1972, said the GOP now must step back and examine what went wrong. "Otherwise, we won't win another election, and there are some big ones coming up in two years," he

After a series of national and local losses, a lingering feeling of defeat describes the mood of the Nevada Republican Party's election night party at the Palazzo Las Vegas Tuesday night. Aside from the drunken slurs and grumbling following the announcement that Barack Obama was the president-elect, discussion revolved around the simple question: What went wrong? "There has been a swing in the political pendulum," said Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons. "Both parties were seeking a win and both worked very hard, but the people have spoken." And spoken they have, as Obama won both the electoral and the popular vote....

Weeks before Barack Obama won the presidency, he met privately in Washington with his former Democratic rival, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, and Latino political leaders who had fervently backed her bid. The cards were laid upon the table, according to one of the participants. The Hispanic leaders said they expected at least two Latinos to be named to an Obama Cabinet — meeting the standard set by President-elect Bill Clinton in 1992 — but preferred three. Of course, they also wanted sub-Cabinet-level posts. In return, Obama needed assurances that Hispanics — who had overwhelmingly voted for Clinton...

Democrats gained control of the state Senate with the defeats of Republicans Bob Beers of Las Vegas and Joe Heck of Henderson. The state Democratic Party led efforts to sign up new voters in their districts and spent heavily on the campaign of Beers' challenger, Allison Copening, and Heck's opponent, Shirley Breeden. For the rest of the Senate incumbents seeking re-election to four-year terms, they either had big registration edges or faced only minor-party opposition. Sen. Mike McGinness, R-Fallon, had no opposition at all. In the lone race for an open Senate seat, a 2-to-1 voter registration advantage in the...

11/04/2008 02:52 PM Obama Campaign Director Dies, Aged 44 Terence Tolbert, Nevada campaign director for Barack Obama, has died of a heart attack, aged 44. Tolbert, who was a former aide to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, died in Las Vegas on Sunday. The director was usually employed as chief lobbyist for New York City's public schools but had been seconded to the Democratic campaign team. Barack Obama is quoted as saying Tolbert's "a strong force in this campaign, with a positive outlook that brought people together."

I have a short list of numbers to call in Nevada. I am at work and I can't call them. Is there a freeper that can please call them for me? If so, please reply and I'll send you the list in a PM. Thanks.

NEW YORK—Terence Tolbert, a longtime political operative in New York who directed Barack Obama's presidential campaign in the swing state of Nevada, died of a massive heart attack just two days before the election. He was 44. Tolbert was stricken at about 8 p.m. Sunday while driving alone near the campaign offices in North Las Vegas. He was taken to nearby North Vista Hospital, where he died. No one else was injured and no accident report was filed, campaign spokeswoman Kirsten Searer said. Tolbert lived in Harlem and had left his job as the chief lobbyist for New York City's...

What: Victory 2008 Phone Bank Rally in Las Vegas, NV on Sunday November 2nd When: November 2, 2008 10:30 a.m. Where: North Las Vegas Victory Office & Nevada Republican Party Office Las Vegas , NV89117 Please join Actor Stephen Baldwin & Captain Jerry Coffee for a Victory 2008 Phone Bank Rally in Las Vegas, NV Sunday November 2nd North Las Vegas Victory Office 5081 North Rainbow Avenue Las Vegas, NV Rally Begins at 10:30 a.m. Nevada Republican Party Office 8625 West Sahara Avenue Las Vegas, NV 89117 Rally Begins at 11:30 a.m. RSVP online for this event http://www.johnmccain.com/ste/eventrsvp.aspx?guid=7c201f2d-993c-4946-9d60-3570d430fa41 A star...

Campaign Spot reader Laurence notes an interesting wrinkle in the post below about Nevada. The guy doing the exit poll of those who have already voted, with 7,147 responses, puts Obama ahead, 50 percent to 48 percent. If Republicans were a lot more of the early voters, McCain would be nervous. If Democrats were a lot more of the early voters, Obama should be nervous. And if they were split even, a 50-48 Obama lead is in the neighborhood of what we would expect. In Clark County, "through Sunday, 55 percent of early voters were Democrats, 29 percent Republicans." "In...

I can't give any more details than that, but I GUARANTEE that McCain wins NV by 5-7%...GUARANTEE!!! That should mean good things for many other states on election day, and expose these polls for what they are - tools of the MSM. Please help me with what a 5-7% win in NV means elsewhere...

On the first day of early voting, 62 percent of Clark County voters were Democrats, while 23 percent were Republicans and the rest nonpartisans or members of minor parties. Through Sunday, 55 percent of early voters were Democrats, 29 percent Republicans. Ok, now pay close attention, the early voting gives Democrats a 26 point edge in in votes cast. Exit polling of early voters conducted by a local political consultant suggests a close presidential contest in the Silver State: Democratic nominee Barack Obama had the votes of 50 percent who had voted, while Republican nominee John McCain had 48 percent...

The NRA is going up in 10 battleground states with an featuring a tough-talking Chuck Norris touting the Second Amendment and warning against those unnamed politicians who have not supported gun rights. "He’s an American badass," said Chris Cox, the NRA's chief lobbyist, of Norris. Cox wouldn't say how much they were spending on the ad, but that it would be on broadcast and cable, cycled into a seven-figure buy they have up now. They'll air the spot in Colorado, Nevada, Missouri, North Carolina, Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, Minnesota and Wisconsin. The NRA has spent millions going after Barack Obama...

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2008 It is my great honor to announce that Linda Ramone, the wife of the late legend Johnny Ramone will be joining me to campaign for my father in Nevada on Monday and Tuesday. I couldn't be more excited and humbled if Elvis himself came out on the road with me. Looking forward to sharing with you what its like to campaign with a legend!

Obama: McCain brings out strangest twist of this campaign Posted: Oct 25, 2008 12:06 PM Updated: Oct 25, 2008 12:23 PM -snip- The McCain campaign argues that Obama's tax increases on wealthy Americans will hurt small business owners and cost Americans jobs. The campaign released a statement commenting on an Obama ad called "Defining Moment" where he promises tax relief for anyone making under $200,000 per year. ""If Barack Obama is elected President, this may be considered the first in a series of 'defining moments' more commonly called job-killing tax increases," Tucker Bounds, spokesman McCain-Palin said. A new CNN /Time...

Talk about your Western states shoot-out. The California Republican Party is sending $3 million to neighboring states of Nevada and Colorado to help in last minute get out the vote efforts in the critical battlegrounds. That's $2 million to Colorado and $1 million to Nevada, we're told. The latest polls from RealClearPolitics.com show Democratic Sen. Barack Obama holding a lead in both states, ahead in Colorado by an average 5.4 percentage points, and leading in Nevada by an average of 3.3 percentage points. Here's the official statement from the state GOP:

Talk about your Western states shoot-out. The California Republican Party is sending $3 million to neighboring states of Nevada and Colorado to help in last minute get out the vote efforts in the critical battlegrounds. That's $2 million to Colorado and $1 million to Nevada, we're told.

After six days of early voting in Nevada (5 electoral votes), Democratic turnout exceeds Republican turnout 57 percent to 27 percent. When the early walk-in vote is combined with mail-in absentee vote, the Democratic advantage is 54 percent to 30 percent. The Democratic vote margin in early and absentee voting (after six days) is 39,000 votes. On Wednesday, the early vote breakdown was 12,475 Democratic ballots to 6,961 GOP ballots. In the state's most populous and Democratic county - Clark County - 20 percent of active (otherwise known as likely) voters and 16 percent of registered voters have cast ballots....