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Nevada Wave
Las Vegas resident checking in – yep! Harry Reid aside NV was a solid Republican state since I moved here in 1991 but the mass-migration of leftist-leaning Californians to Las Vegas and Reno have finally tipped it over. I doubt Republicans will ever carry this state again frankly.
In Nevada, a Democrat won the Governor’s seat for the first time since 1994. We lost the second Senate seat. We lost seats in both houses of the legislature, as the Democrats increased their control. ETTD.
W carried Nevada twice. It can be done if we nominate a solid Republican who is not personally offensive and emotionally, well, questionable.
Trump was right. This election was a referendum on him.
In the governor’s race, the Republican won all of the counties in Nevada except the two urban counties, Clark and Washoe, home of Las Vegas and Reno. We were killed in the suburbs, in Nevada and throughout the nation. See SC-1, GA-6, and OK-5.
More Hokusai? He does have the best wave…
As I understand it, the Nevada hotel and motel workers union is one of the few great victories for unions in the country lately. Would like to see someone write about it or reference some articles about it.
Nevada has been Californicated, as has Colorado, Oregon, and Washington. The answer is to break their supposedly permanent coalition of identity groups, providing a new version of the Reagan three-legged stool: security, economic, and social conservatism. Directly challenge the Democrats.
As I laid out in a Washington state thread, 2nd Amendment supporters long ago showed contempt for “Bible Thumpers,” so now both are under the leftists’ boot.
That is the message that has to be driven home to corporate leaders, and has to be a condition of Republican states inviting corporations to move. “You are welcome here, just so long as you subscribe, as a corporation, to religious liberty, and you enforce that in your corporate culture. If not, you will drag this state down, first in liberty and then economically, as conservatives are marginalized and then leftist tax policy advances.”
I have to disagree with Gary’s take. I don’t think a W (or a Romney, even) could carry Nevada today, and I think Republicans would have lost Nevada whether or not Trump was president. Mitchell and Clifford touch upon the reasons why, in my opinion:
1. We only lost in Washoe & Clark counties, but Washoe & Clark are the only counties that matter anymore. The massive (and accelerating) migration of Californians into Nevada has turned Reno & Las Vegas into urban Democrat strongholds; politically they dominate the rest of the state just as the Bay Area and LA dominate the rest of California. This problem was well underway before Trump.
2. Nevada Republicans are complacent and don’t yet appreciate this demographic change. Over the past 6-8 months or so I’ve been inundated with print, radio, and internet ads for Steve Sisolak & Jacky Rosen (even on conservative radio stations!). I can’t go a day without hearing Sisolak’s voice. Dean Heller, Adam Laxalt? MIA. On an almost weekly basis, I’ve had Democrat party canvassers at my door, all very young and sincere with their clipboards, handing out pamphlets and encouraging people to vote. Not a peep from Republicans.
I win bow to your experience, as you live in Nevada, and I have only visited there.