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New poll data from a poll commissioned by the Las Vegas Review-Journal: 300 REPUBLICAN VOTERS QUESTION: If the 2010 Republican primary election for Nevada’s U.S. Senate seat were held today for whom would you vote if the candidates were: (ORDER ROTATED) Sue Lowden 47% Danny Tarkanian 29% Sharron Angle 8% John Chachas 1% Bill Parson [...]

From the Elko Daily Free Press: ELKO — Former Republican Assemblywoman Sharron Angle, who has her eye on the U.S. Senate seat now held by Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., said nearly everything she hears on her rural campaign tours “funnels back to the economy.” Job creation is a major element of the economy, but Angle [...]

Nevada Republican Senate candidate John Chachas writes: (John Chachas) – The release this week of a document titled “The President’s Proposal”, an 11 page re-hash of a failed Health Care expansion bill, is a political ploy to re-energize a terrible health care initiative crafted by back-room dealings of Nevada’s Senator Reid together with Speaker Pelosi’s [...]

From the Reno Gazette-Journal: If you’re thinking about running for office in the 2010 elections, you’d better decide soon, as the two-week candidate filing period in Nevada starts next Monday. Filing for most offices on the ballot in Lyon County takes place at the Lyon County Clerk-Treasurer’s Office in Yerington (27 S. Main St.), while [...]

Quick! Let’s pass a climate bill before everyone stops believing in climate change! Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is urging Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) to quickly write comprehensive climate and energy legislation to give the measure a chance of reaching the floor this year. Reid and Kerry met Tuesday in the Capitol to discuss [...]

ABCNews.com: Millions of foreign tourists are shying away from U.S. destinations, a trend that Congress hopes to reverse in a travel promotion act it passed Thursday. The Senate voted 78-18 for the legislation, which sets up a nonprofit corporation for travel promotion tasked with assuring potential visitors that they will be welcomed, helping them with [...]

More analysis of the third party tactics: Trouble is simmering in the Tea Party movement over a struggle with identity theft. In Connecticut, Florida and Nevada, the Tea Party has been registered as a third political party for the 2010 election. All three parties are already involved in either recruiting candidates or preparing their campaigns [...]

Easy to see that Harry Reid has been working for the government way too long. No hotel/casino I know keeps on an extra hundred or so employees if business doesn’t warrant it. Paul Lowden’s salary seems shockingly small compared to what his counterparts at other gaming companies earn. And Archon never received taxpayer money. Ridiculous: [...]

By email from the Lowden campaign: Hello Supporters, As I continue to travel the state and meet with voters, my team has been charging ahead with me and connecting with voters on the phones at our Volunteer Phone Bank. Please take some time to stop by our Las Vegas or Reno Office and help us [...]

From the Reno Gazette-Journal: FERNLEY–U.S. Senate candidate Danny Tarkanian will be the guest speaker at the Fernley Republican Women’s Club meeting on March 16 at 6:30 p.m. at the Round Table Pizza Restaurant on Highway 95a. Tarkanian grew up in Nevadan and is a former University of Nevada, Las Vegas, basketball star. He graduated with [...]

Analysis from Kelly Anderson Wright: Just nine months ago, pundits predicted Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) would coast to his fifth term, due to a dearth of heavy-weight Republican challengers willing to take on the most powerful Democrat in the nation. By summer’s end, eleven Republicans claimed they had enough chutzpah to fight Harry, while another [...]