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Harry Reid and Slavery

Akagi2 Wrote: Dec 15, 2009 11:13 AM

Nevada does indeed have many Mormons, but the problem is many of these live in rural Nevada and there numbers are diluted by the Las Vegas metro and the Reno metro. There are some Mormon communities in Clark County (e.g. in the Moapa Valley), but they represent a small slice of Clark County at large. Look at the Washoe and Clark 2008 vote, they voted overwhelmingly for Obama. Mccain did well (but not as well as Bush) in rural Nevada (like Elko and Tonapah and Winnemucca) but this wasn't enough to overcome the Las Vegas and Reno metro totals for Obama. Obama only won two counties out of the 17 total, but if the two counties you win are Clark and Washoe, that is enough to win the state at large.

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Harry Reid and Slavery

The classical poet A.E. Housman wrote, “For nature, heartless, witless nature…” He might have said the same thing about history which like nature is neither cruel nor kind, right or wrong; it is simply indifferent. It has, as they say, no dog in the fight.

If, however, one is looking back and telling history it might then be said that one is right or wrong about history. One might say as much about Senate Majority leader Harry Reid (D-NV), who was wrong about history in his remarks accusing Republicans opposed to Democratic healthcare...

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