Please Help Me Turn Tahoe Blue!
It's illegal for me to contribute, it's logistically impossible for me to volunteer since I'm not a citizen and don't live in the US. So I was a little bit in a quagmire because I really wanted to help...
View ArticleA Local Paper's Take On Daily Kos (Hint: They get it!)
This diary is in reference to Bob Johnson's diary Memo to lazy media: Daily Kos does NOT equal Markos about the Beltway media's inability to get what Daily Kos is about. In the comments section of that...
View ArticleGet the popcorn! Journalist rips Republican candidate apart!
I just read an article in the Las Vegas Sun about an interview with Nevada's CD-02 candidate Sharron Angle and I'm only left with one question to ponder: Is there anyone in Nevada who has more contempt...
View ArticleNV-02: Is Jill Derby a sleeper candidate?
While the race for Nevada's 2nd Congressional District is wide open this year, many still believe it will eventually stay in Republican control due to the Republican voter registration advantage....
View ArticleNV-Senate: A real sleeper race
I've watched the 2006 Senate races intently. We've got Santorum, Burns, Chafee, DeWine and Talent in varying degrees of danger. The search for that sixth seat which may give us control of Congress'...
View ArticleIs there anyone out there in rural Nevada? You can turn Nevada Blue.
Much has been written about the arch conservatism of rural Nevada, which is all of Nevada except Clark, Washoe and Douglas counties, and Carson City. According to conventional wisdom, registered...
View ArticleNV-02: One More Win for Dems, CFG (?)
Ultra wing-nutty Nevada State Rep. Sharon Angle looks to be close to winning the GOP primary in NV-02, barely edging "centrist" Secretary of State Dean Heller and state Rep. Dawn Gibbons, wife of Rep....
View ArticleNevada Primary: The aftermath
As some of you may have heard, Jack Carter pulled off an easy win last night in Nevada's Primary. Besides the Carter race, there were a few other important developments in yesterday's Primary:...
View ArticleNew NV poll: Dina Titus leads in Gov, Jack Carter within MoE!
A couple of weeks ago there was a Rasmussen poll which had Jack Carter withing the margin of error against John Ensign (39-46). There were a lot of people who decried this poll as an "outlier" saying...
View ArticleNV CD2 The Race of the Hindenburgs
This Congressional race in what might be called a purple area of northern Nevada has come out of the gate with all the intensity and interest of a flat rock speeding across the Nevada desert. It pits...
View ArticleNV-02: Jill Derby within margin of error against Dean Heller
The Reno Gazette-Journal released the first post-primary poll for Nevada's 2nd Congressional District today. It has Democrat Jill Derby within the margin of error against Dean Heller: Jill Derby 37...
View ArticleNV-02 Psycho-in-Chief Comes to Reno to Rescue Heller
The Psycho-in-Chief will visit Reno October 2 to raise much needed money for Dean Heller(R), Gibbons heir apparanent and cum neocon in northern Nevada. It's going to be both good news and bad news for...
View ArticleNV-02: New Poll - Jill Derby within 3 Points in Rep District
Jill Derby is on course to making history. With every new poll she's inching up closer and closer to Republican Dean Heller. The newest Mason Dixon Poll, conducted Sep 19-21 was published by the Las...
View ArticleGood Candidates Can Win Everywhere! (eg my hometown!)
I was born and raised in a very catholic, very conservative county. The less evil German equivalent to the Republican Party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has run this county continuously for...
View ArticleMy Daily Donation | E-29 | $20 to Jill Derby
Every day until the election I'm making a contribution to a new candidate, announcing it here on Daily Kos, and encouraging you to join me. If one person matches my contribution on my ActBlue page,...
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NV-02: The Cowgirl Candidate
We've got another deeply red district, another phenomenal Democratic candidate, and one more chance at an upset in the West. Meet Jill Derby, from the Flying Flapjack Ranch in Lovelock, Nevada....
View ArticleHOUSE: 3 Weeks, 6 House Candidates to Support!!!
I put together the following list of Dem House candidates that I think the online netroots community at DKos and beyond should support in these final 21 days before the election, based on two criteria:...
View ArticleNV-GOV: Jim Gibbons (R) Assaults Woman in Parking Lot
This is the modern GOP. Sex, sex and more sex. And not the good kind either, more like the kind which is prohibited by various State and Federal Laws. It is genuinely difficult to keep up with it all....
View ArticleNV-All: Las Vegas Review-Journal Endorsements: Lies, Lies, and Damned Lies
Lies, lies, and damned lies Every once in a great while, I wonder why everyone thinks the Las Vegas Review-Journal is such as crap paper. Then I read things like today's editorial and it all becomes...
View ArticleNV Early Voting has Begun: Home phoners needed to GOTV Today!
Hi, folks. As you know, my Dad is Jack Carter, who's running for US Senate in Nevada. Early voting began last week, and we at the Carter campaign are doing a big GOTV push over the next week! It's...
View ArticleWill Karl Rove Lose His Childhood District Tomorrow?
A lot of us were mighty afraid what "October surprise" the almighty Karl Rove may have in store of us this year. Somehow that one big surprise that could swing the election back to the Republicans...
View ArticleDemocrats can win in the rurals
When talking about trying to win the 2nd congressional district in Nevada, which encompasses almost all of Nevada except for the heavily populated parts of Clark County, you almost always encounter one...
View ArticleNV-02: Heller Had 12th Worst GOP Result in 2006
Nationally, many pundits and bloggers didn't take Nevada's 2nd district too seriously in 2006. It was too safe a Republican district to be even slightly competitive, so the argument went.Well, we all...
View ArticleStop the Republicans from beating the Dem Senate Leader - Now!
Cross posted from My Silver State.Remember 2004? When the incumbent Senate Democratic Leader was beaten when he was running for reelection in South Dakota? The first time the Republican Senate Leader...
View ArticleNevada Convention [Update x2] NOW with pencast!
I decided the NV Democratic State Covention would be a good chance to use my new Pulse Smartpen. I sold my Wii to get this bitch and then waited six months for them to finally ship it, so it better be...
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Nevada Convention Photos and Pencast
I posted some comments about my experience at the Nevada democratic State Convnetion last night. Now I have uploaded my photos. There are some below and the entire collection can be viewed here. (Let...
View ArticleNV-GOV: Messy Divorce Could Expose Corruption
It's already well known to both parties that Nevada, along with Colorado, is Ground Zero in this year's election. The presidential race is too close to call and our candidates Jill Derby (NV-02) and...
View ArticleAgain, the GOOD Dem challengers on FISA: a list
Given what happened yesterday, I feel it's important I repost my earlier diary on who are the GOOD Democratic challengers when it comes to FISA. I'll try to corral all their statements into this...
View ArticleNV-03: Dean Heller's foot, meet Dean Heller's mouth
Rep. Dean Heller, July 8:The Republican Party lost its majority in the House of Representatives in 2006, and is likely to lose more seats in November, but Nevada Republican Dean Heller says he doesn't...
View ArticleWhy I'm Attending Netroots Nation
[Cross-posted at MyDD, Swing State Project, Reno & Its Discontents]I'm Jill Derby, Democratic Candidate for Congress in Nevada's Second Congressional District. Many of you know me from 2006 when I...
View ArticleAnnouncing "Nevada Bloggers for Jill Derby and Dina Titus"
With only three and a half month left before election day, Nevada bloggers have joined forces and today announce the creation of the "Nevada Bloggers for Jill Derby and Dina Titus" ActBlue fundraising...
View ArticleDCCC unveils latest wave of Red to Blue
Short, but quite sweet.Don Cravins, Jr. (LA-07 Jill Derby (NV-02) Vic Wulsin (OH-02) Kathy Dahlkemper (PA-03) Tom Perriello (VA-05) Judy Feder (VA-10) There's been quite a bit of news around Donald...
View ArticleNV-2: Dean Halliburton
Dean Heller, friend of big business, friend of Dick Cheney, friend of Halliburton.Yep, the company formerly chaired by Dick Cheney, the company getting probably the most bang for the buck out of the...
View ArticleIA-04: Why hasn't EMILY's List gotten behind Becky Greenwald?
Maybe someone out there who knows the inner workings of EMILY's List can explain to me why this group has not put money behind Becky Greenwald, the Democrat challenging loyal Republican foot-soldier...
View ArticleFocus On...NEVADA!!! (#38 in a 50-diary series)
Every State. Every race. Right here.This is number 37 in a planned series of 50 entries between now and November, looking at each of the 50 states in terms of every race on that state's...
View ArticleNV-02: Fraternal Order of Police Endorse Derby
In 2006, Democrat Jill Derby -- a fourth-generation Nevadan and anthropology PhD who still speaks some of the Arabic she learned living in Saudi Arabia for three years in the 1970s -- came within five...
View ArticleNV-02: Netroots Nation Footage Used Against Derby
Hard on the heels of the FOP endorsement of Democratic candidate Jill Derby, this is what (cheap-ass, poor production values) Republican reaching looks like: first-term House member Dean Heller's ad...
View ArticleNV-02: I don't think I can vote for Jill Derby
Talk me down?Up until yesterday I intended to vote for Jill Derby in the NV-02 congressional race. She didn't exactly impress me when she ran in 2006, but it didn't really matter. I was new to Nevada...
View ArticleNV-02: Heller in some danger, McCain doomed in Nevada
Research 2000 conducted a recent poll for the Reno Gazette-Journal. The results ought to send a chill down the spin of Nevada Republicans.First, the results from the Second District House race, where...
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NV-02: Nevada Ready to Rumble
On a gorgeous late September day, I joined Jill Derby in Reno to catch up on her campaign, spend a little time going door-to-door and find out about the extensive coordinated Democratic campaign...
View ArticleRecord Turnout on First Day of Early Voting in Nevada
Mirroring what's happening in other parts of the country (North Carolina, Georgia), early voting in Nevada yesterday started with a record turnout by voters.
View ArticleNV-2: Voter Files FEC Complaint Against Heller
Correction: I initially wrote that the Derby campaign filed the FEC complaint while it actually was an independent voter. Sorry for the oversight.
View ArticleListening to the Locals: Nevada
(In the final days of an election, there is so much information from so many races, it's difficult to stay on top of every story and understand the subtle dynamics often at play on the ground....
View ArticleNV-02: Heller (R) sued, polls tightening
Nevada Republican Dean Heller, facing the challenge of his life from Democrat Jill Derby in the most Republican district in the state, faces a rash of bad publicity at precisely the wrong time.First,...
View ArticleDK Elections Daily Digest: 3/17
•NM-Sen (PDF): What happens if you took a poll and no one answered? That's what this Tulchin Research poll (taken on behalf of the Defenders of Wildlife) feels like to me, what with its sample size of...
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DK Elections Daily Digest: 5/3
Senate: •MA-Sen: I'm sure in polite circles it's unacceptable to criticize Scott Brown over something like this, but I think his request to do his annual National Guard training in Afghanistan is...
View ArticleNV-02: Kate Marshall (D) will run
Democrats have landed a pretty big name in the open seat race to replace Dean Heller:Nevada State Treasurer Kate Marshall announced today that she will run for Congress in Nevada’s 2nd Congressional...
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Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: 5/17
To receive the Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest via email each weekday, sign up here.Senate:•MN-Sen: This, folks, is the Minnesota Republican Party's first (and so far, only) candidate in the race to...
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Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: 5/31
To receive the Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest via email each weekday, sign up here.Senate:•MA-Sen: Poor Setti Warren. He just can't catch a break. From DSCC Chair Patty Murray, at a briefing for...
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