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Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., with his son Harris, from left, daughter Emmy, and wife Lynne celebrates his victory at the Palazzo in Las Vegas after midnight on Wednesday, November 7, 2012.
Monday, Nov. 12, 2012 | 11:06 a.m.
Republican Sen. Dean Heller believes he and President Obama both won in Nevada because Nevadans could better relate to them than they could GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
Heller narrowly defeated Democratic Rep. Shelley Berkley by about 12,000 votes or 1.2 percent. Obama had 66,000 more votes than Romney or 6.5 percent.
Nevada Democrats have 90,000 more registered voters than Republicans. But exit polling shows between one and two out of 20 Democrats crossed party lines after backing Obama to vote for Heller. Only about half as many Romney-backers voted for Berkley.
Heller told the Reno Gazette-Journal he supported Romney but wasn't sure the ex-Massachusetts governor was someone the average person could relate to. He says Obama seemed to better connect with the average Nevadan than did Romney.
Great job Dean. You barely won and now you are going out and savaging others in the party.
Mr. Heller is exactly right. I voted for Obama as well as Heller, because I felt Shelly is a dishonest person. First time in years I voted for a repub. WTG, Dean.
Don't be too sure of how you won. Smear campaigns end up to be just that. Wondering after the new person gets in who REALLY WAS THE DISHONEST ONE. It will take alot of sensible decisions to keep that position with how voters are changing to be more diversified now and more of them everyday. Many races were this close. You act like you won by this huge landslide.
The President didn't connect with this Nevadan
Romney and Berkeley were flawed candidates, but Berkeley was better than the Koch Brothers tool Heller.
Quite predictably, voters - especially the nonpartisans - selected against Reid's hand picked, highy flawed candidate.
That many Dems going against Reid is no surprise either.
A Reid-Sandoval race would be something to hope for.
All that money Sheldon Adelson gave to Newt and Mitt to beat Obama, they grifted him good, Nevada grifter respect..
:-)
Heller should not blow his own horn so loud he is not exactly what Nevada was looking for either. He is a poster boy for the obstruction and gridlock that has taken over Republican politics and harmed millions of Americans lives in the process. Remeber he wants to turn Medicare into a voucher system and end Medicade which will throw thousands of seniors out of nursing homes and into the streets. It is a shame Nevada believed all of the lies he told about Berkley,Heller will never acomplish what Berkley did if he has to crooked GOP lives.