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twitterLETTER TO THE EDITOR:
State’s opposition to Democrats is growing
Saturday, Oct. 17, 2009 | 2:02 a.m.
In a story in Monday’s Las Vegas Sun, “Republicans adding few new voters in Nevada,” reporter David McGrath Schwartz addressed the poor registration results for the Republican Party versus the Democratic Party.
But the real issue is the total number of people who are not registering as Democrats. Though 4,860 more Nevadans registered as Democrats from February to September, during this period 1,549 registered as Republican, 3,783 registered as nonpartisan and 1,690 registered as Independent American.
Each other group can be assumed to be opposed to the Democratic Party and its platform. Interpreting the results this way, those newly registered voters opposed the Democrats by more than 2,100.
So those registering in opposition this year are still a significant offset to Democratic registration gains.
Also there are a considerable number of registrants who oppose both Republicans and Democrats but whose values probably coincide with those of the Republicans more often than with those of the Democrats.
I support scrutinizing your representatives, regardless of party, to see if they’re really the ones you want. It is time for a change.
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That's a radical assumption you make: anyone registering as an Independent or Non-Partisan must be anti Democratic and Pro-Republican. On what do you base that conclusion? Logic? No. Ah ... Starlight, star bright, first star I see tonight. I wish I may, I wish I might, have the wish I wish tonight.
"I support scrutinizing your representatives, regardless of party"
LOL this is a one party union state hence Neveda will be one of the last to recover.
Smart people are leaving Democratic Nevada.
The next census will show that the union run Democratic Nevada has few Republicans left.
I am out of HOPE , I just want change. Goodbye harry Reid.
Thank heavens, the less republicans the better. Harry Reid in 2010, Nevadas voice.
If we have less Republicans who is going to pay the taxes to support the social parasite Democrats. Sen. Nevada's Embarassment Harry Reid back to Searchlight in 2010.
People in Nevada deserve Harry Reid. He has been feeding at the public trough all of his life and you all keep voting for him. He even has his son on the public teat now.
Ah... Change that we can believe in...
Less Democrats in office and more Independents.
Stan G believes that the writer makes a radical assumption but no such assumption is stated. Nowhere in the letter does it state that, "anyone registering as an Independent or Non-Partisan must be anti Democratic [sic] and Pro-Republican." What is said, "Each other group can be assumed to be opposed to the Democratic Party and its platform," is obvious else why register other than Democrat?
Larry, you are so NOT independent, it isn't even funny. What a silly ruse you use!
I really don't care what I am called... I have and will continue to vote for the person who I feel will do the best job in representing the voters.
I would like to see more Independents and third party politicians run for office. But that will probably not happen in the foreseeable future.
So, I will continue to vote for the Democrat or Republication who is conservative on spending and liberal on human rights.
LarryVegas.......I have voted that way since 1957. It doesn't always work but sometimes it does. I have never voted a straight ticket. I don't believe in weak candidates riding the coattails of a strong candidate and I resent a good strong candidate suggesting that I do vote for a party hack just to get the whole ticket elected.
The Democratic Party is the only party that
cares about the average worker in this country.
BOTH REIDS FOR 2010.