The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Will N.H. Flinch in Primary Standoff?

A glimmer of hope to avoid a December date for the New Hampshire primary: New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner is imperiling the state’s place in the political world by threatening to hold a December primary, New Hampshire GOP Chairman Wayne MacDonald charged Thursday. . . . MacDonald urged Gardner to hold the state’s […]

REPUBLICAN ARMAGEDDON LOOMS: New Hampshire Threatens December Primary Unless Nevada Moves Caucus

A big tip of the fedora to Bob Belevedere of Camp of the Saints for this alert: In a message sent by New Hampshire’s Secretary of State (see PDF here), he says that unless Nevada changes its caucus date from Jan. 14 to Jan. 17 or later, “I cannot rule out the possibility of a […]

Vegas, Baby: Republican Armies March Toward Political Battle of the Century

From: NVDebate ([email protected]) To: [email protected]; Date: Wed, October 12, 2011 2:53:06 PM Subject: RE: CREDENTIALS REQUEST – NEVADA DEBATE Hi Robert, You have been issued credentials. Please note: The credential will grant journalists access to the press filing center and media spin room, which will be located in Hall G of the Sands Expo and […]

8,000,000: Fear and Loathing on Vegas Debate Media Credential Deadline Day

Later today we will record our 8 millionth visitor to the blog. We got our first 3.3 million at the old Blogspot site (March 2008-December 2009) and, since switching to the custom domain with WordPress software in January 2010, have added another 4.7 million visits. We recently recorded our best month to date with 339,343 […]

Comity Of Errors

by Smitty Trying to restore Senate comity Democrats have one overriding objective this Congress: to create jobs and get our economy back on track. But our Republican colleagues are so dead set on preventing Democrats from passing job-creating legislation that they have been willing to abuse the rules of the Senate to grind the chamber […]

Looking Up From Here, It’s Barely Possible to See the Bottom of ‘Down’

BREAKING: South Carolina to hold primary on January 21 A friend sent me that on Twitter and then, via Memeorandum, I saw this: Nevada Republicans decided Saturday to move up the GOP presidential caucuses to January to preserve the state’s early voting spot, although it will cost the Silver State half its delegates at the national […]

NV-2 New Ad: ‘We Were Promised Recovery, We’ve Been Given Misery’

The special election in Nevada’s 2nd District is Tuesday, and in his final TV ad, Republican Mark Amodei targets the SCOAMF’s economic bungling: Amodei, a former state senator and Nevada GOP chairman, has sought to link Marshall to President Barack Obama. “We were promised recovery. We’ve been given misery,” Amodei says in his ad, as […]

Herman Cain: Viva Las Vegas!

Mike Chamberlain at Cranky Hermit has a report of Herman Cain’s appearance at Chuck Muth’s “First Friday” event in Vegas: The day after an impressive performance in a Republican Presidential debate, Herman Cain left little doubt about his future intentions. He told the assembled local bloggers and print journalists at a briefing in Las Vegas, […]

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