Las Vegas Review-Journal: Democrats now have 5% Registration Advantage in Nevada

[TheresNoMoney]

The latest statewide voter registration numbers are in, and if you've been following this story in recent months, it's no surprise: Democrats again gained ground.

According to the secretary of state's office, 55,560 more Democrats than Republicans are on the active voter rolls in Nevada, as of the end of June. The gap widened from 50,020 in May and represents 5 percent of the 1,031,984 active voters.

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[Alcon]

That doesn't secure them a win or anything.  Nevada is a famously low-turnout state, so Obama will still need a major GOTV machine there.

And above all, I really trust polls over stats like these.  It does definitely show the Democrats' inertia, though.

[WalterMitty]

west  virginia has about a 2:1 democrat registration advantage.

[TheresNoMoney]

west  virginia has about a 2:1 democrat registration advantage.

True, but different voters and different set of circumstances.

Bush won Nevada by 3% and Republicans had a 1% voter registration advantage in 2004. Now Democrats have a 6% registration advantage and it will be much easier for Obama to win the state than it was for Kerry.

[MarkWarner08]

Now that Yucca's no longer a contested issue among the Presidential candidates (McCain now supports an international nuclear waste dump), how will candidates pander to NV voters? I doubt most NV newcomers even know what Yucca is.  This could help McCain because the backbone for Gore and Kerry's supporters in 2000 were folks concerned about using Yucca as the nation's nuclear waste repository.

[Reaganfan]

I don't follow stuff like this. Four years ago...Democrats were higher than Republicans everywhere.

Keep in mind...with polls and surveys and data...Republicans tend to be more silent. Not to bring up another great President's mention of the "silent majority".

[Aizen]

I don't follow stuff like this. Four years ago...Democrats were higher than Republicans everywhere.

Keep in mind...with polls and surveys and data...Republicans tend to be more silent. Not to bring up another great President's mention of the "silent majority".

Great president? Nixon was a crook.

[MarkWarner08]

I don't follow stuff like this. Four years ago...Democrats were higher than Republicans everywhere.

Keep in mind...with polls and surveys and data...Republicans tend to be more silent. Not to bring up another great President's mention of the "silent majority".

Thanks for the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts,  Nixon!

[Reaganfan]

I don't follow stuff like this. Four years ago...Democrats were higher than Republicans everywhere.

Keep in mind...with polls and surveys and data...Republicans tend to be more silent. Not to bring up another great President's mention of the "silent majority".

Thanks for the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts,  Nixon!

Indeed, Reagan was much more conservative.

[bullmoose88]

Nixon was much more intelligent.

[Reaganfan]

Nixon was much more intelligent.

Nixon and Reagan are both two of my favorite presidents.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

Nixon wouldve also been remembered as a great president if it wasn't for watergate.

[MarkWarner08]

Nixon wouldve also been remembered as a great president if it wasn't for watergate.

Welcome to counterfactuals land, where history buffs debate if Millard Fillmore could've been the greatest American leader if only he'd....

[Person Man]

Nixon was a weasel. Plan and Simple. This could actually be important in a state where the Republicans have been having trouble when they WEREN'T behind in VID.

[Daniel Adams]

I don't follow stuff like this. Four years ago...Democrats were higher than Republicans everywhere.

Keep in mind...with polls and surveys and data...Republicans tend to be more silent. Not to bring up another great President's mention of the "silent majority".

Thanks for the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts,  Nixon!

Indeed, Reagan was much more conservative.

Not only was Reagan more of a conservative, Nixon didn't even consider himself part of Buckley, Goldwater, and Reagan's conservative movement, and neither did the latter appreciate Nixon. As Buckley wrote after Nixon's disgraceful resignation,

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Friedman called Nixon one of the worst presidents in the 20th century, and in both 1968 and 1972, conservatives did not support Nixon in the primaries (they backed Reagan and Ashbrook, respectively).

For his part, Nixon strongly disliked conservatives after Goldwater's defeat in 1964. He saw them as obstacles to his plan for a Republican majority. In fact, he once stated that "the Buckleyites [are] a threat to the Republican Party even more menacing than the Birchers".

Sorry for the sidetrack, but conservatives really shouldn't rise to the defense of Nixon. The man was a power-hungry crook, almost a perfect Machiavellian, who did not believe in small government.

[Person Man]

I don't follow stuff like this. Four years ago...Democrats were higher than Republicans everywhere.

Keep in mind...with polls and surveys and data...Republicans tend to be more silent. Not to bring up another great President's mention of the "silent majority".

Thanks for the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts,  Nixon!

Indeed, Reagan was much more conservative.

Not only was Reagan more of a conservative, Nixon didn't even consider himself part of Buckley, Goldwater, and Reagan's conservative movement, and neither did the latter appreciate Nixon. As Buckley wrote after Nixon's disgraceful resignation,

You must be logged in to read this quote.

Friedman called Nixon one of the worst presidents in the 20th century, and in both 1968 and 1972, conservatives did not support Nixon in the primaries (they backed Reagan and Ashbrook, respectively).

For his part, Nixon strongly disliked conservatives after Goldwater's defeat in 1964. He saw them as obstacles to his plan for a Republican majority. In fact, he once stated that "the Buckleyites [are] a threat to the Republican Party even more menacing than the Birchers".

Sorry for the sidetrack, but conservatives really shouldn't rise to the defense of Nixon. The man was a power-hungry crook, almost a perfect Machiavellian, who did not believe in small government.

He believed in conservatism when it required big government, though.