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Jeff Dougherty votes during Election Day at the Paseo Verde Library in Henderson Tuesday, November 2, 2010.
Published Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010 | 1:50 a.m.
Updated Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010 | 5:50 p.m.
Sun politics editor discusses Election Day
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Las Vegas Sun political editor Michael Squires discuss today's election on KSNV's 4 p.m. newscast.
Republican Sharron Angle casts her ballot Tuesday morning in Reno.
Sun Coverage
2010 General Election
- Zip Code
- Party Affilliation
- Democrat — 60.9%
- Republican — 19.1%
- Independent — 15.2%
- Other — 2.3%
- Tea Party of Nevada — 0.8%
- Green — 0.7%
- Libertarian — 0.7%
- Independent American Party — 0.3%
- Who are you voting for in the U.S. Senate race?
- Harry Reid — 70.7%
- Sharron Angle — 26.9%
- Scott Ashjian — 1.1%
- Wil Stand — 0.5%
- Tim Fasano — 0.3%
- Jesse Holland — 0.3%
- Jeffrey C. Reeves — 0.3%
- Michael L. Haines — 0%
- Who are you voting for in the Nevada gubernatorial race?
- Rory Reid — 61.6%
- Brian Sandoval — 32.3%
- David Scott Curtis — 2.9%
- Eugene "Gino" Disimone — 1.1%
- Aaron Y. Honig — 0.8%
- Floyd Fitzgibbons — 0.7%
- Arthur Forest Lampitt Jr. — 0.6%
- Who are you voting for in the U.S. House District 3 race?
- Dina Titus — 66.2%
- Joe Heck — 29.4%
- Barry Michaels — 2.1%
- Joseph P. Silvestri — 1.9%
- Scott David Narter — 0.5%
This poll is closed, see Full Results »
Note: This is not a scientific poll. The results reflect only the opinions of those who chose to participate.
Months of campaigning was winding down today as Nevadans went the polls to decide a hotly contested U.S. Senate race, pick a new governor, decide three House races and choose the makeup of a 2011 Legislature.
Election officials said 99,812 voters had cast a ballot in Clark County today through 3 p.m.
Larry Lomax, Clark County registrar of voters, had initially expected about 190,000 people to cast ballots today in Clark County, but said the actual number likely would fall short of his prediction. That number would have matched a 26 percent turnout from the last two Election Days, not including early votes.
"Just based on what I'm seeing out here today, I have a feeling that's going to be high," Lomax said this morning of his prediction.
County and state election officials said there were no major problems with voting today.
"Things are going very well as far as I know. All the polling places opened on time," Lomax said. "Some of the minor little issues that always pop up during elections -- nothing that would have affected the voting."
Secretary of State Ross Miller said there were minor delays at a few polling sites, but the election was "running smooth."
Economy 'going to take time to turn around'
Independent voter Ruben Ramos, 42, cast his vote Tuesday morning at Green Valley Baptist Church in Henderson. He said he voted for Harry Reid because of his track record in helping Nevada.
“He’s been helping, he’s just having a hard time right now,” Ramos said. “He’s been doing all right.”
Ramos, a construction worker who has been through three bouts of unemployment since the recession struck, said despite his personal hardships he felt confident in Nevada’s future.
“I think it’s probably just going to take time to turn around,” he said.
Sharon Danko, who also voted at Green Valley Baptist Church, said she voted for Sharron Angle “because we need a change.” But Danko, a Republican, said she voted for incumbent U.S. Congresswoman Dina Titus, a Democrat.
What influenced her vote, she said, were “the things I’ve heard about what Joe Heck won’t vote for, medical and otherwise.”
Henderson voter Charles Kern said he voted mostly Republican down the ticket, including Angle for Senate.
“We just need to get rid of Harry Reid,” Kern said. Kern said he is concerned about the state’s future.
“I’m absolutely worried about the future of Nevada, especially with how the economy is right now and the way Democrats have been spending,” Kern said.
Differing messages for incumbent
Mary Turner, a registered Democrat who works at UNLV, cast her vote this morning at Christ the Servant Lutheran Church in Henderson. In the major races, she voted for Democrats, saying Harry Reid “has been good for Nevada” and she felt more confident in Rory Reid than she did in Brian Sandoval.
As the recession has walloped Nevada, education funding has taken major hits. Turner, 54, voiced frustration with how Gov. Jim Gibbons, who lost to Sandoval in the primary, has overseen the state’s budget, especially in regard to education. However, blaming one party or the other for the state’s and country’s economic woes would be “oversimplifying,” she said.
“I know it’s really bad right now, but I know we’ll pull out of it,” she said.
Also outside Christ the Servant, Diane and Glenn Chaves both said they voted for Angle in the U.S. Senate race.
Glenn Chaves, 67, said he has voted for Harry Reid in the past. Not this election.
“He has lost touch with his responsibility to the constitution and to Nevada,” he said. “He’s just in a Democratic fog.”
Angle, he said, is a new voice. “I’m just sick and tired of Harry Reid,” he said.
His wife, Diane, echoed his sentiment.
“He is ineffective and self-serving," she said. "This state used to be a big mining state and he hasn’t done anything for mining in years.”
The Chaveses both voted for Sandoval for governor and Heck for the U.S. House District 3 seat.
“Rory Reid is Harry Reid’s son and the acorn doesn’t fall far from the tree,” Glenn Chaves said. He added that he felt Dina Titus got “swamped” in the Democratic agenda when she went to Washington and criticized her votes for the stimulus and health care bills.
Social issues bring out votes
Ernie Freggiaro, who voted at Bridge at Paradise Valley assisted living center on Harmon Avenue this morning, is a registered Republican and voted for Angle and Sandoval.
But Freggiaro stopped short of voting for all GOP candidates when he cast his ballot for Titus, his neighbor for 20 years.
"This is the first time I've voted for her," he said. "She has done a great job as congresswoman."
William Snyder, on the other hand, voted a clean sweep for Democrats on his ballot — mainly for social reasons.
Snyder said because he is gay, he voted for candidates most likely to support LGBT issues, especially the repeal of the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. He said his boyfriend, who was in the military for seven years, could have benefited by being open about his sexuality.
"That's what I'm afraid of — all the advances in 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' and the Republicans coming in and screwing that up," said Snyder, who identifies as an independent.
Other voters were more blunt about their views of certain politicians.
"Sharron Angle scares me," said Alexander Brooks. "I don't like the idea of having people I honestly consider to be insane in our government."
Brooks, who works at UNLV, said he fears his job could be in jeopardy if Republicans win elections in Nevada and cut education funding.
Plenty of blame to go around
At Coronado High School, Thomas Bulger was pushing his brother, Richard Bulger, who was in a wheelchair, outside the polling place shortly after 8 a.m.
Both retirees, the two Democrats had each just cast ballots hoping to re-elect Harry Reid to the Senate. The reason?
"What George W. Bush did to this country," Richard Bulger said. "He ruined the country. The one thing I'm afraid of is Angle gets elected."
Thomas Bulger said he agreed with his brother about Bush.
"I hope our grandchildren will be able to afford to get us out of debt," he said.
Henderson residents stand in line to cast their vote during Election Day at the Paseo Verde Library in Henderson Tuesday, November 2, 2010.
The brothers also said they each voted for Democrats Rory Reid for governor and Dina Titus for Congress.
"I wanted Democrats across the board. I don't understand how any working man could be voting for Republicans after what they've done to the country," Thomas Bulger said.
Thomas Mietzner, a Republican, said he was worried about Nevada's future.
"I'm worried we're not diversified enough with the economy," he said. "It's all about the gaming."
Mietzner, who voted for John McCain for president two years ago, said he voted today for Republicans Sharron Angle, Brian Sandoval and Joe Heck, explaining he's a fiscal conservative. He said the ballooning federal deficit encouraged him to vote for Angle.
"We're spending more money than we have," Mietzner said.
Another Republican, Mark Towk, said he holds Democrats responsible for the recession.
"All the foreclosure stuff started with Barney Frank and Chris Dodd," Towk said after voting at Coronado High School in Henderson. "They allowed it so we started giving people half-million-dollar homes when they couldn't afford homes that were $180,000."
Towk said the economy, the federal debt and "Obamacare" led him to vote for Angle.
"For health care, I have to wait four years and there's the possibility of putting me in jail if I don't buy it. Come on!" Towk said.
Towk, who voted for Sandoval for governor, said Rory Reid was running on his father's name recognition.
'Insane' GOP and 'problem' Democrats
The economy and immigration were on the minds of voters at Manuel Cortez Elementary in the northeast valley.
Dave Melvin, a registered Republican, said he voted a straight Republican ticket because he had seen many friends lose their jobs in recent years.
"Where do I start? I don't like Harry Reid," said Melvin, who added he doesn't hold the Senate majority leader responsible for the recession "like the press does," but believes Reid, Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are "part of the problem."
"(The election) is not about Sharron Angle," he added. "It's about taking (Reid) out of power."
Lola Moss, a fellow registered Republican, took the opposite stance: she said she voted against the Republican candidates because she believes they have no plans for the future.
As an elementary school teacher, Moss said she worries about how public education will be funded and voted for Democrats.
"The truth is the Republican candidates -- they're insane," she said. "I kept waiting for one of them to say something practical and logical. It's terrifying."
'All the choices were bad'
At John Bass Elementary School, 10377 Rancho Destino Road, 50-year-old Blake Grantham said he was disappointed in the candidate choices, but voted Republican like he did in 2008.
“All the choices were bad,” Grantham said, shaking his head. “Even ‘none of the above’ was bad.”
The focus wasn’t just on the races capturing national headlines. Just across the street, two young women held signs for Ken Small, who is running for trusteeship of District F of the Clark County School Board.
Even though they are a year shy of being able to vote, Las Vegas High School students Ashley Perez and Myah Sandoval said they wanted to get out the vote on their day off from school.
“Education isn’t how it used to be,” Perez said, referencing an annual Education Week magazine survey that ranked Nevada last in the nation for the quality of its public schools. “We’re not being taught as much as we’re supposed to be.”
“Every vote is important,” Sandoval added, encouraging young voters to turn out today. “Our generation doesn’t realize that people we elect affect us. We should be more informed and aware.”
Early voting: By the numbers
Poll worker Ernestine Terrell directs voters to their stations during Election Day at the West Las Vegas Library in Las Vegas Tuesday, November 2, 2010.
In early voting turnout, Republicans outperformed Democrats in getting to the polls in Nevada. Final tallies for two weeks of in-person voting and a preliminary count of mail-in ballots for the state's two most populous counties, Clark and Washoe, gave Democrats about a 9,000-voter edge.
The slim margin stands out because Democrats hold a 60,000-voter edge in statewide registration.
Democrats accounted for 162,801 in-person early voters -- or 43 percent of the total -- just over the party's share of registration. But the GOP turned out 156,264 early voters, or 41 percent of the total -- which is 4 percentage points higher than party's registration in the state.
Democrats held a 21,502-to-19,087 edge in mail-in ballots for the state's two largest counties.
Clark County was 68 percent of the early turnout while Washoe County was 18 percent and rural areas were 14 percent. In Clark County, 22,830 more Democrats have turned out than Republicans.
With Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Republican hopeful Sharron Angle neck-and-neck in the polls, Nevada has been home to one of the nation’s most-watched races. Nevadans also will decide whether Republican Brian Sandoval or Democrat Rory Reid will lead the state through its toughest economic slump in decades, as well as choose who to send to the U.S. House.
The ballot includes a host of statewide, legislative, local and judicial races.
Polling places will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. About 3,500 people will work at the nearly 300 polling places throughout the Las Vegas Valley.
Anyone who has not turned in a mail ballot will have until 7 p.m. tonight to turn it into the Election Department Office at the Clark County Government Center, 5000 S. Grand Central Parkway, Las Vegas, or the Clark County Election Center, 965 Trade Drive, Suite A, North Las Vegas.
Visit lasvegassun.com tonight for updated election returns and coverage of the races.
Anyone who will elect Reid and has lost their home to forclosure, can't find a job, lost their job, wondering how they will support their family has NO RIGHT TO COMPLAIN as you LOST your chance to start fixing the problem!
Bad Reid...Bad Senator... http://aBadReid.com
@aBadReid--- home forclosures, job losses are George W. Bush's fault not Reid. Please get your facts right.
melissan;
Typical Democrat response... Get YOUR facts straight...The Republicans were trying to stop the run away Fannie Mae adn Freddie Mac fiasco... Tell me something...What will you Democrats do next after this election...STILL blame Bush for everything?!?! That argument is getting old and after today, you will see that it is lost on the voting public!
A vote for Senator Reid is a Vote for illegal immigration. Why in the world would he Vote NO on English being the national Language for the United States Government, why would he vote Yes on giving Illegal aliens Social Security benefits, Why would he applaude the President of Mexico,against Arizona Governor- What was he thinking, he was not thinking about US.
dennis... dipstick... you got the song right.
Jonathan Edwards, "Sunshine"...
"You can't even run your OWN life; I'll be DAMNED if you'll run MINE!" is so totally APT for a response to the Tea-Set.
"Sunshine come on back another day
I promise you I'll be singing
This old world, she's gonna turn around
Brand new bells'll be ringing"...
When the Tea Party is shuttered, and Sarah Palin shuts her screeching, gaping maw, and Sharron Angle get's back on her spaceship, and Christine O'donnell goes back to Junior High,
and Rand Paul goes back to Anger-Management classes, harmony will be restored in the Universe!
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Buh bye Harry.
Everyone: Enjoy the day and some verse by a dead poet.
SEASON of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease;
For Summer has o'erbrimm'd their clammy cells.
Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep,
Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook;
Or by a cyder-press, with patient look,
Thou watchest the last oozings, hours by hours.
Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,--
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day
And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;
Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
Among the river-sallows, borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft;
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.
aBadReid: "Still blame Bush for everything?".
You mean the stock market crash of 2008 doesn't exist now? Where were you?
Typical Republican response - pretend the past didn't happen or rewrite history like the Evangelicals try to do every day.
The Iraq war was a WAR AGAINST THE US GOVERNMENT, not terror, because there were no terrorists in Iraq. It was an opportunity to destroy the economy just like bin Laden wanted to do and then try to grab the Retirement Income of America and give it to Wall Street. Bin Laden couldn't have had a better business partner than George W. Bush.
On Retirement Savings, the Government Employees or Retired Military will NEVER PRIVATIZE their retirements - they want the Government to guarantee their checks. It's only the working people that must give their retirement checks to Wall Street!
Bush hasn't left yet - John Roberts and Sam Alito are here to bring RICH MAN'S LAW to the land and stomp out equality.
China doesn't entrust the fate of their country to a few greedy people. That's why, in 20 years, China will walk all over this country because they will have the education, the transportation, the money and the technology to do so and America will be teaching it's young how Dinosaurs rode on Noah's Arc.
When I voted, I noticed that George Bush was not on the ballot. The way Democrats have been blaming Bush for everything, I thought George Bush was on the ballot.
What happened?
Vote, vote, vote!!
Just think, tomorrow we won't have to look at horrible wallpaper!
SHARON ANGLE WALKS ON WATER
Sharon Angle was seen near her home in Washoe County today walking across a large puddle and not getting the least bit wet. Scientists explain that she is such a political and mental light weight that she is incapable of breaking the surface tension of water.
On the verge of being sent to Washington D.C. to break the divisive tension there the world waits with bated breath to try to figure out what joke Nevadans are playing. Nobody gets it.
I think that the fatdawg has got his candidates mixed up:
IT IS HARRY REID WHO THINKS HE WALKS ON WATER!!!
Thanks LarryVegas, usually this is where I make a comment about your "not me, YOU" type of comment or, "Nuh-uh" which is basically all you said. You peppered in some sort of fat joke which is funny, via internet correspondence, but none of that matters.
I want to say thanks for continuing to build upon the sarcasm in my previous post by responding, obviously, in the character of someone who didn't read it, doesn't understand it, or who simply posts things on a website but who really doesn't care. The attitude's the thing and baby, you've got it!
Right now Mr Obama, Harry Reid and their pals on the Left seem to think there's something wrong with being "mad"...... Well here's a news flash, just being mad ain't the half of it !!!! People ought to be fit to be tied right now...... because the people losing the election today told their clients, the Democrats, to say the Right hates African Americans, Latinos, gay people and women. The people losing today say the Right hates Jews, Muslims and the poor. The people who are losing today accuse the Right of hating America. So why shouldn't the Right be mad at the people losing today?
The Right is impugned daily in the media. And nobody comes to their defense. In fact in their own party the elitists sort of give faint agreement... they're racists, they're sexist, they're bigots, remember the people who are losing today, in an effort to win, called conservatives racists -- they said they hate blacks, they said they hate Latinos. When what conservatives are really doing is standing up for the law and defending the Constitution.
The people losing today have called conservatives stupid, uneducated, unsophisticated, and have called them insane hate-mongers and fascists too. In some cases they have sent union thugs to beat conservatives at campaign rallies. So why shouldn't the Right be mad?
They have said that conservatives are violent extremists. When the Times Square bomber was caught the Left suspected that it was a conservative who planted the bomb, because the GOP was upset at Obama's healthcare. And they say nobody on the Right should be mad?
Why shouldn't the Right be angry? When their reaction is in defense of the honors and traditions that have made this country great as they are under assault every day by a political party and machine who do not subscribe to their greatness, who do not believe they have a role in America any further.
The people who are calling conservatives violent extremists are the ones engaging in violence. The ones who call conservatives hate-mongers are the people who engage in hate. Of America. The ones accusing the Sharron Angle of being insane, themselves don't have elevators going all the way to the top, or, are an order of fries short of a Happy Meal.
So why shouldn't Americans be angry? I can think of no reason why they shouldn't. They are mad as hell.... and today here in Nevada, just like everywhere else in America, people will cast their votes accordingly.
"Obama... One and Done" : Vote Republican - 2010/2012
I wish the posters would stop bashing Sarah Palin, she will make an excellent Republican nominee for 2012. Mitt Romney will not win early Republican Primaries, like South Carolina, because the same bigots that don't like Islamics, don't like LDS either. Mitch Daniels and Palenti are too boring. Huckleberry doesn't play well in New Hampshire. So you are left with Palin. A Palin-Angle ticket will be great!
It is funny when they pretend that the voters listed as independents don't exist yet they make up like over 1/3 of the voters.
Hmmmm...I wonder which way they voted.
"A Palin-Angle ticket will be great!"
You TeaHeads have done more damage to the GOP than the Democrats ever did, please stay the course..
The Tea Party has done more damage to the GOP and the DEMS than either political party ever did.
Please continue the course, until both parties start representing the voters instead of their special interests...
Judging by the comments here - no wonder Nevada is as F'd up as it is.
Palin-Angle ticket...... You gotta be kidding me!!!! And WHO would vote for those two??? McCain couldn't win with Palin on his ticket and by 2012 the rest of the country will know what a nutcase Angle is(IF she wins). The country will have a good laugh at Nevada expense if Angle wins this election. Of course, there are a good many nutcases running in other States, too, but it will all balance out since most States actually have decent politicians running things and are not representing States with the highest unemployment and foreclosure figures. So someone is doing something right. Can't say that for Nevada's politicians.
BTW - where has John Ensign been?
Democratic candidates could believe in Donald Duck , Bugs Bunny , Santa Claus , and the Tooth Fairy and democrats would still vote for them.....
"A Palin-Angle ticket will be great!"
For Dems!
That said, low turnout is generally bad for Democrats this election cycle. Republicans have whipped their base up into an fearsome anger. It doesn't take them much motivation to get out and vote against Dems in the same way it didn't take much effort to get Dems to get out and vote against Republicans in 2006.
Democrats are much more hit-and-miss this time around. If the turnout is high, that means their GOTV efforts are working. If the turnout is low, their GOTV efforts have failed.
The Republican establishment is conspiring against Sarah Palin...time to vote Tea Party...why vote for an establishment candidate like Angle (a 20 year politician backed by rhino John McCain)
Time to vote for Ashijian or none of these candidates ...
Oh, it's crying time again, Harry's gonna leave me.
I can see that far away look in his eyes
I can tell by the way Harry looks at me blankly
That it won't be long before it's crying time...
A word of caution - Una palabra de precaucion
For American voters:
Carefully review your printed paper ballot before pressing the "Cast your vote" button. If it disagrees with your choices, inform the poll watchers immediately, and do not cast your vote.
For those who have no business voting in our elections because they cannot read, speak, or understand our nation's language:
Revise cuidadosamente su boleta de papel impreso antes de pulsar el "Vota" boton. Que no esta de acuerdo con sus elecciones, informar a los fiscales de inmediato, y no emitir su voto.
Me has ayudado mucho...
If you are a Democrat today, and you can't brag about your party's record, what do you do? All you can do is go negative... What do you do when you're party has failed and is losing? What do you do when you're about to get shellacked and you can't think of anything worth mentioning about what's been done or what your party's agenda is. What do you do when people aren't buying the party schtick, "Give Obama two more years to keep doing what he's done." You have to go negative. You have to try and destroy, impugn, and with no hope of coming out ahead tomorrow morning, someone outta Left Field is even comes up with stuff like, "I wonder if the Republicans are hacking this election like they did in 2000 and 2004 ". And that kind of brilliant remark does what exactly for the Left?
Fact is my liberal friends, no matter how you folks try and spin things today, the worse it's getting across the country at the polls for the Democrats..... I hope all the nay sayers will remember, as the Left reminded us so many times over the last 2 years, "Elections have consequences"....... I am so gonna enjoy watching Democrats, one by one, choke on those words over the days and weeks to come.
to Tony Crago.....
According to the Wesleyan Media Project and the Washington Post (a well known liberal leaning newspaper) it's Democrats who have increasingly gone negative in their advertisement during the midterm elections . Here's the link to the facts as well as a video that shows several examples of negative campaign videos put out by Democrats here in Nevada and across the country.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...
All I see in the lib blogs is irrational, uninfomed people who don't have any idea of the ramifications of this election. They take "The Popeye" approach,,Iyam what Iyam...
Its always the same old Dem/Socialistic Hyperbole they have been fed for yhe last two years and they just continue to sound like parrots. They voted for Hope and Change and all we have received is..DOPE and Spend all the change.
Many have no conception of our our country's downward slide to destruction. They just want to feel taken care of by the government which promised and hasn't delivered. Taken for sure!..Care leaves much to be desired!
They FORGET: "ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS"
WHERE ARE THE JObS? wHAT HAS REALLY IMPROVED?
SO....NOW...HOW IS ALL THAT "HOPEY=CHANGEY THING"
WORKING OUT FOR YOU.....FOR OUR ECONOMY..FOR OUR STANDING IN THE WORLD? IN TWO YEARS..BANKRUPTING
THE UNITED STATED OF AMERICA WAS NOT WHAT WE WERE PROMISED
Gld, would you mind interpreting your post to those of us who don't speak teabag?
PS - it's looks like you left out marxist, communist, kenyan and the obligatory reference to Saul Alinsky's playbook. You are slipping Con.
REWRITING HISTORY BY TONYCRAZO...
"No political party in history has been as negative, deceitful and deflective as the 2010 GOP and their teabagger counterparts."
Really? Any supporting facts there Tony?
"They didn't run a single ad saying what they would do to fix our country."
Again, Really? Good for you.. Have you read and watched them all?
"They ran 100% negative campaigns."
And Harry Reid and the Democrats did not run a negative campaign? Remember Tony, you said you have said that you have seen them all.
"And if somehow they steal seats in government..."
Steal? Is Tony insinuating that voters who are voting for Sharron Angle are stealing the election? Should Harry Reid have his Senate seat for life?
"All you right wingers clamoring for change. You better bet we're going to give you all of eight weeks to turn this country around - same as you gave us."
Who is "we" and who gave you eight weeks? Harry Reid has been in office for approximately twenty four (24) years.
"Then it's time for change again!"
In 2012, if our elected officials are not performing up to par, then of course they should be voted out of office.
Desperate tactics:
http://www.nationalreview.com/battle10/2...
I had an enjoyable time voting today.
Only one glitch happened. And it happened to me during the primaries too.
They looked up my name. Then they looked it up more. Then they flipped pages. Looked again.
After about three minutes, I leaned over and advised them to look under the other name...that "Colin" is not my last name...use the other one.
I couldn't believe it. Happened TWICE! Last time and now this time.
I guess it's my fault for having two confusing names.
Anyways, I voted straight up and down Democratic.
Happy Election Day!
A Vote for Senator Reid is a vote for illegal immigration
A vote for Harry is a vote for the same old thing!
Putting the same person in and expecting anything but the same old same old thing is insane!
Harry is 100% responsible for the condition our country is now, he was the one in charge, he was their, he voted for every law, that combined has put us here.
If you dare to vote for Harry again, you have no excuse for all that will follow, and it will be the same old DC BS that Harry is so well trained at!
Send Harry back to Searchlight! I bet he will never come back to Searchlight, he will stay in his multi-million DC townhouse and get a job as an lobbyist like all the others before him.
Give it a rest pmontg53 - do you really think Angle will do anything except provide us with unending comedy and embarassment?
She blames Harry for everything, but has NEVER said anything she would do to help the people here. EVER...
Anyway, anyone know what time we should expect to start seeing results?
to Jenlv...
The polls in the eastern united States start closing at 4PM our time, the Cable Networks will start in earnest to report the election results when it's 5PM in Vegas.
If you're only looking for the numbers here in Nevada...... given Harry Reid had teams of liberal election attorneys flown in yesterday, I'd say it's safe to figure by December 1st we should know something.....
Just talked to my neighbor, voted for Angle. Asked why, hates Reid. Asked about the crazy Angle quotes, didn't believe she said them, even though they are on tape and confirmed to be accurate. Even with all the coverage, not one glimmer of the facts got through. It's time to change the National Anthem, Dare to be Stupid by Weird Al comes to mind. "O say can you see ?" - NOT
RevPettibone...The Dems have a lot of accomplishments to tout. Unfortunately, the well financed propaganda efforts by FOX, Limbaug, Hannity, Savage, the Koch Brothers, Karl Rove, as well as foreign interests in Dubai, Bahrain, India, Singapore and Communist China have droned out these efforts to get the word out on the Democratic side. In other words, the Dems are on a soap box in the town square and the Republicans have bought all the megaphones!!
Im watching the exit polls and still in awe that this election could even be close. Guess Mississippi has some competition now as the dumbest most backward state.
1. Austerity policy, notably in EU, might work against job growth.
2. Hampering Change & Demanding Change.
3. Former President Bill Clinton compared Republicans to a football coach fired after several losing seasons who demands his job back after the new coach posts a winning record but still hasn't won a championship.
It's well known that democracy & technology shape the future of a nation.
Let's give Democrats a chance to make headway.
Former President Bill Clinton said "It took me four years to balance the budget, then I gave you four surpluses, paid $600 billion down on the national debt,"
And I'd say : It took 8 years for the Bush mishandling to get a final verdict.
Let's not fall for the outrageous claim : Heal the 8 year-long chronic disease quickly, but do not see a doctor, adding to the deficit.
4. The exciting fourth wave of smart grid & renewable energy with great job potential world-wide is upon us.
In much the same way CA facing high jobless rate spreads wings, Nevada can also make a leap forward in renewable energy space.
This election might be all about jobs, jobs, jobs.
Given this, the candidate lacking job plans needs to be voted out until coming out with fresh ideas.
Thanks Rev - I guess I'll start watching around 8pm -
Considering Angle's team started screeching about voter fraud a couple days ago, I'm sure her lawyers are here too - although they must really suck considering they can't even figure out obvious copyright infringements.
Those who vote straight party tickets should not debate candidates, because it really doesn't matter to them anyway.
Straight party voters are the real threat to our political system...
Did you vote for ONE Democrat Larry? I voted for a Republican -
Vote Whig in 2012: http://www.modernwhig.org
to LarryVegas....
Given your logic, clearly you insult 95 percent of African Americans that voted in 2008 ... over 70 percent of Latinos that voted in 2008, and probably better than 65 percent of all other voters in 2008.
Just finished voting. All the machines were busy, but there were only a handful in line and things were going pretty smooth.
I didn't see any problems or have any.
In other words, everything was just as it should be. :)
Thanks for the link boftx! Looks interesting -- right along my idiology -
I think *many* of us could accept a large part of what the Whigs are saying.
The current level of polarization has to end. I would suspect that most Americans are still in the middle, but can't find a party that wants to go there. Well, the Whigs do.
I intend to become active in party politics again in the near future, and it will be as a Whig. I have not been with any party since I left the Republicans (or rather, they left me) in the mid 80s.
Anyone who would like to discuss this further is welcome to use the Sun email facility to get in touch with me.
The Wave has started ... all the networks are in agreement, already 2 new senators for the GOP in the Midwest; Paul and Coats both win.
If you people re-elect this bafoon Reid, shame on you. While you may deserve what you get, the rest of us don't. This guy is as incompetent as they come, second only to the Community Aggitator and Pelousi. I hope you all do the right thing, but exit polls are showing you did not. TSK TSK TSK.
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Bush couldn't get privatized Social Security even though he had the House, nor immigration reform, even though he had bi-partisan support. What went through? The Iraq War that will cost a trillion and the Prescription Drug Bill that will cost a trillion. And where were all the bellicose teabags yakking about spending then?
And the Democrats didn't get the public option, even though they controled the White House and Congress.
So this tea-crack pot or crack pipe notion that spending is going to stop is bogus. They won't touch defense, Medicare or Social Security. Nor the Farm Bill, the Highway Bill or the Defense Bill.
Grow-up teapots! The handful of crackpots will not get anything done. The Republicans are getting ready to cook Palin's goose for Xmas.
Yes Jenlv, I voted Democrat, Republican and Independent.
I did vote NO on all the questions...
With any luck we can start with a clean slate, and change it too if it doesn't work right!
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Will Tea Party supporters join the Modern Whigs?
I have been thinking of becoming a Whig member for a while now. I am registered as an Independent and I don't see me ever going back to the Democrats or Republicans.
Modern Whigs have a website with quite a bit of information. I didn't realize how well they are organized.
From their website:
"A Whig is someone who is non- fringe, independent thinking, and results oriented. A Whig is someone who wants to be active in the governing of our nation, whether that be voting, collaborating on issues and solutions, or running for office and becoming a public servant. A Whig is firm in principles, and flexible and rational in solutions."
There has got to be something better than what we have now...
I don't very much that the religious right would want the Whigs, but the fiscal conservatives of the TEA Party might well accept the Whig message.
Even more, moderate Democrats who are leery of how far to the left their party is leaning can find a lot to like in that message, too.
As I said, I think most people are close to the middle and want to see a party that will say the same.
Actually neither party gives a damn about the middle class. And we will just have to see if the T-Party gives damn. My guess, they won't.
Harry forgot one important thing, bailout banks and not homeowners; kiss your job goodbye. Maybe this election will change their minds; but don't hold your breath.
Fight Big Government and Big Corporations!
YAYYYYYYYY!!!!!!
The political ads are gone!
There is no doubt that the Republicans will have control of the House. This is good.
Once again we will have balance in D.C. and they *must* learn to compromise if they wish to do anything at all. It is unlikely that the Republicans will take the Senate, but even if Reid retains his seat, we can hope that the Democrats will put someone else in as Majority Leader. There is no doubt, it is unmistakable, that the American public is sick and tired of Reid.
Maybe now Obama will get the message that we are NOT Europe, that we want to succeed or fail on our own efforts, not with government handouts.
can't wait to hear Nutbag's concession speech....Not sure if she can man up to do it though...As Napolean Dynomite would have said: "IDIOT!!!!!!"
Nevada voted itself into third world status because we will not support or underwrite Nevada and California any longer.
You voted for free money but you are not going to get our money any longer.
You cannot vote for the right people who could turn your economy around so you deserve what you have voted for.
But we will call, email, and write our Congress members and demand that they do not offer any support for Nevada or California since they have chosen to NOT take care of themselves.
If anyone votes for money to be sent to Nevada and California, we will boot them out of office in 2012.
Take care of yourselves and quit whining. You vote wrong, you lose and you are on your own.
Las Vegas enjoyed being number one in housing starts for years - they loved it but can't take the back swing when it happens. Why don't people in Nevada take some responsibility for the condition Nevada is in, instead of blaming one guy. That just seems pretty irresponsible and unaccountable. Las Vegas was little liked, needs to hijack water to sustain itself, and in spite of that Harry Reid brought much wealth to Vegas and the Nevada residents. Back him up in hard times
The dumbest voters are in the state of nevada. Citing economy huh? They voted for a clown who will cut more jobs and everything else who even announced he would. If you put a cockroach in a suit and tie and spent 4 million on its campaign I bet it would beat Sandoval in a close one. Im glad I dont live in Nevada.