Take one look at the screwy results from three public polls in the presidential race in Nevada this week and one might wonder why anyone bothers conducting horse race surveys in the Silver State at all.
Democratic Sen. Steven Horsford is accusing his political foes of launching racially charged attacks against him in his congressional run against Republican Danny Tarkanian.
President Barack Obama will be spending a critical three days in Henderson before his first debate against Republican rival Mitt Romney, a White House source confirmed today. Obama will arrive in Las Vegas on Sunday and will rally supporters at a public campaign event at Desert Pines High School.
U.S. Sen. John McCain today accused the Obama administration of not telling Americans the truth in the wake of the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi earlier this month.
In mid-May, a small cadre of seasoned Nevada political operatives gathered around a plastic table in a sprawling, still-empty strip mall office in Summerlin. Their task: Craft a functioning Republican turnout machine.
The cheap gas offered by the conservative political group Americans for Prosperity in Reno on Tuesday was a political event designed to blame President Barack Obama’s energy policies for driving up the cost of petrol.
Nevada voters should look at President Barack Obama’s track record on housing and not trust “the gossip” from those who have criticized Obama’s approach to the foreclosure crisis, San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro said today.
In observance of the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney mostly eschewed politics in a speech today before the National Guard Association, instead paying respect to the members’ service. On that day 11 years ago, Romney was in Washington, D.C., to meet with congressional members. He drove past the Pentagon after the attack.
In a brief fly-in-and-fly-out campaign stop here Friday, Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan promised he and Mitt Romney would wrest the White House away from a president who’s “really bad at creating jobs.” Reprising his campaign stump speech, Ryan offered a broad five-point plan for creating jobs that included the general campaign themes of lowering taxes, protecting small businesses, exploiting natural resources and fostering manufacturing and agriculture.
State Sen. Steven Horsford is going up on air with the first television ad in his bid for Congress—a powerful spot that tells of his difficult upbringing in urban Las Vegas.
Nevada Democrats face a challenge perhaps more daunting than the rivalry over who should be their nominee, a predicament that ensnared their Republican counterparts in Tampa.
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney faced a high bar as he officially accepted his party’s nomination Thursday. In a half hour speech, he had to appeal to the varying factions that competed in the Republican primary fight, hopefully finding a string with which to unify them.
On their convention's second night, Republicans turned to a man who has spent almost his entire career in Washington to be the one to dismantle the policies of President Obama’s administration.
For some Ron Paul Republicans, the Texas congressman’s son Rand Paul is the most promising candidate to carry on his “message of liberty.” For others he's a typical politician.
One day after a gut-wrenching slap down at the Republican National Convention, Ron Paul’s supporters spent Wednesday trying to regroup. The overriding question for all of them: What now?
Texas Rep. Ron Paul has succeeded in submitting petitions from six states to put his name up for nomination at the Republican National Convention. Under current convention rules, Paul needs just five states to earn the chance to speak and then be considered for nomination.
If Mitt Romney campaign officials were counting on Ron Paul — Romney's former adversary for the presidential nomination — to play ball during this convention, they might want to reconsider.
For the handful of Nevada Mitt Romney supporters in a delegation controlled by a band of would-be Ron Paul revolutionaries, the Republican National Convention has become more an event to endure than a celebration of their candidate.
GOP chairman Reince Priebus officially gaveled open the 2012 Republican National Convention today, only to immediately close it for a day-long recess. Even though the proceedings lasted less than five minutes, groups of both Ron Paul and Mitt Romney delegates stood warily by in case either faction tried something unexpected.
With the possibility of a Ron Paul presidency virtually out the window and the congressman rumored to be near retirement, his supporters must decide what to do next — and who will carry them forward.
After taking an election year beating from Democrats on Medicare for months, Republicans regrouped, found their message and launched their counterattack. But as Missouri Rep. Todd Akin’s “legitimate rape” comment resurrected the “war on women” motif last week, it’s clear Republicans haven’t quite found a similar footing when responding to the broader charge that the GOP is on the wrong side of women’s issues.
As a crucial battleground state, Nevada might be expected to play a starring role in the made-for-TV Republican National Convention. But because of infighting within the state party structure and a state convention coup by Rep. Ron Paul’s supporters, Nevada’s starring role may look like a dysfunctional sideshow instead.
On the national stage, deals are being struck between Republican presidential nominee-to-be Mitt Romney and Rep. Ron Paul to ensure a harmonious national convention next week in Tampa, Fla.
Pivoting to a new stump speech at a community college in Reno, President Barack Obama argued Tuesday he would devote a second term to policies that would make an affordable education accessible “to everybody not just the wealthy.”
U.S. Sen. Dean Heller leaned on one of the Republican Party’s rising stars Thursday to help him build the case for his campaign against Democrat Shelley Berkley.
Sen. Dean Heller said he is unaware of the various federal investigations into the business practices of top GOP donor Sheldon Adelson’s company, but said the investigations are receiving attention because of his political involvement.
Former Assemblywoman Heidi Gansert announced today she was stepping down as Gov. Brian Sandoval’s chief of staff, becoming the second high-ranking staff member to leave the administration this summer.
The idea seemed good to Democrat Shelley Berkley’s campaign at the time: Hold a news conference in front of the Social Security building in Reno to hammer home the accusation that Republican Dean Heller wants to end Medicare and privatize Social Security. Unfortunately for Berkley, all manner of obstacles from angry security guards to the Heller campaign and even Mother Nature conspired to block that message from getting through.
In one of his first campaign stops as Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney’s newly minted running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan will headline a rally in Las Vegas Tuesday afternoon.
If the only information for you to judge Nevada’s U.S. Senate candidates came from attack ads on television, you’d probably think Republican Dean Heller wants to “end Medicare” and Democrat Shelley Berkley thinks nothing of chopping $500 billion from the program. Indeed, so far, both candidates have been content to let the debate over Medicare be distilled into attack ads, wielding the program as a convenient political weapon rather than putting forward detailed plans for addressing the financial issues confronting the government-run health insurance plan that covers the nation’s senior citizens.
Nevada casinos fear broad bill could siphon customers, cut down on profits
Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2012
Each time Congress promises to consider online poker, the subject ends up getting pushed back into yet another overcrowded, end-of-the-year, lame-duck session. And each time that happens, Nevada’s gaming industry becomes increasingly nervous.
As the U.S. House prepares for a contentious vote on a pair of tax cut extension bills, President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign is ramping up an effort to convince voters Republican Mitt Romney’s tax plan is designed to protect the rich.
Rep. Shelley Berkley is facing something of a quandary in funding her U.S. Senate bid: she is returning to the same primary well of donors -- the kidney care industry -- that has triggered an ethics investigation into whether she pushed policies beneficial to the industry and her husband's medical practice.
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney took aim at President Barack Obama’s foreign policy record during a speech before the VFW today, accusing Obama of putting troops at risk with national security leaks, mistreating America’s most important allies and kowtowing to despotic leaders. In a stark contrast to Obama’s speech to the same convention Monday, Romney delivered a series of heated attacks against the administration in an address suited for the campaign trail.
Was President Barack Obama really trying to take credit away from business owners who built their own companies? Obama’s misspoken line plays right into Mitt Romney’s central line of attack.
Was Shelley Berkley fighting for patients or doctors when she worked to prevent cuts to Medicare reimbursement rates? A current political ad says Berkley is a crusader to protect Medicare, while Sen. Dean Heller wants to end the program as we know it.
In the 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court opened the door to corporations spending unlimited amounts of money on political advertising, a move that has had resounding implications in the presidential race this year. It also freed labor unions to start working non-members for votes.
Adviser says president believes that industry should pay its share, that proposal opens conversation about changing mining law
Friday, July 13, 2012
On the 2008 campaign trail in Elko, Barack Obama voiced his displeasure with proposals to put royalties on hard rock mining companies, saying that charging companies 4 to 8 percent to mine public lands could hurt jobs. But after describing the royalties as too burdensome in 2008, Obama’s administration has shifted positions.
U.S. Senate candidate Shelley Berkley today will deliver a vigorous defense to accusations she violated ethics rules, flooding Nevada airwaves with a new ad that portrays her as a crusader for protecting Medicare.
Chalk this one up as the blind squirrel happening upon the proverbial nut. In a year when the Nevada Republican Party has been noted almost exclusively for its dysfunction, it may have gotten it together long enough to pull off at least one coup.
A poll of Hispanic voters in battleground states revealed a potentially troubling trend for the Democrat in Nevada’s key U.S. Senate race: Hispanic voters don’t like U.S. Rep. Shelley Berkley quite as much as they like other Democrats.
Gov. Brian Sandoval landed a huge feather for his economic development cap last week with the announcement that Apple will build a $1 billion data center and purchasing office in Northern Nevada.