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Published Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2008 | 10:54 a.m.
Updated Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008 | 10:15 a.m.
It's political roundup time from Northern Nevada, where Washoe County has flipped to a majority Democratic voter registration for the first time in 30 years.
From the Reno Gazette-Journal's Anjeanette Damon's story: "It's a very big deal," Republican consultant Pete Ernaut said. "It represents a rather monumental shift in attitudes in the most crucial swing county in the state. I would've never thought in my lifetime that Washoe County would be a Democrat county."
Like or don't like what that may portend, today is the last day to register to vote.
Meanwhile, many are noticing that Washoe County may support Sen. Barack Obama over Sen. John McCain.
A Politico story notes that in three of four swing counties in swing states, including Washoe County, Obama holds a narrow lead. The Politico poll has Obama up 46 to 45. Politico notes: "In 2004, President Bush won Washoe County, Nevada's second-most populous county, by a four-point margin over Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kerry."
As long as we're on the polls, colleague Coolican notes the large margin of error in the R-J's poll that placed Heller with a double-digit lead over Derby in CD02 and that had Porter beating Titus in CD03.
Speaker Barbara Buckley, the Las Vegas Democrat, was in Carson City last evening giving her presentation giving her presentation on the state's financial structure. Did Gov. Gibbons attend?
Alas, Governor Gibbons was in D.C. meeting on the sage grouse issue, which is vital to Northern Nevada and the future of renewable energy projects in the state.
ACORN did a great job. I wonder how many are legitimate voters. Read Jesse Jackson's speech in France declaring a President Obama will end decades of putting Israel's interests first in the middle east. Is this what Obama plans for our new world order? http://www.nypost.com/seven/10142008/pos...
My dog "Fred", who died 20 years ago, is registered to vote in every county in Nevada.
Your dead dog Fred won't show up at the polls, and if you bring a stuffed Fred, we won't be able to vote. So you point would be?
I guess you do not understand that many polls are weighted by party and sometimes they use current number of reported party registrations in that area to help calculate that weighting.
You are probably surprise to hear that.
So if the party registration are false then it may make the weighting of the polls to be wrong and perhaps an over reporting of numbers in favor of a candidate.
For example, there are 100 people that in a county. The pollster randomly calls 10 of them. The party registration in that county shows 51 Democrats and 49 Republicans. If the poll taker gets 6 people that say their are Republican and 4 people that are Democrat then the pollster may randomly drop the results of 2 Republicans. The poll taker is trying for accuracy.
Acorn and Obama hard at work