{"id":7052,"date":"2018-11-05T19:11:32","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T03:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vinsuprynowicz.com\/?p=7052"},"modified":"2018-11-06T08:42:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T16:42:00","slug":"7052","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vinsuprynowicz.com\/?p=7052","title":{"rendered":"From the hills and the mountains, from the plains and the bayous, in the millions they’re coming . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Voted early in very red Nye County, Nevada on Thursday, November first. Republicans so dominant here that some run unopposed for local offices, some draw challengers only from the (more conservative) Independent American Party.<\/p>\n

To support Donald Trump, the Brunette re-registered this year for the first time in years. (Like so many, she worked tirelessly on a couple of state-level campaigns, Libertarian of course, watched as the message got watered down, \u201cmassaged\u201d and re-packaged so as not to offend anyone. How the sausage is made.)<\/p>\n

We encountered 20-minute lines at the polling place, which are unheard-of here, even on a Presidential election days. The precinct captain said 32 percent of the town had early-voted as of Wednesday, with two more days of early voting to go — normal early-voting turnout is 20 percent. They\u2019re planning to set up many more machines than usual on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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Nevada only looks \u201cblue\u201d because of all the Culinary Union (hotel\/casino) workers — many of whom speak little English — pressured to register by their union and then bused to early-voting stations in supermarket parking lots in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

Up till recently those using a \u201cgreen card\u201d to get a driver\u2019s license or alternative \u201cDAC\u201d at the Nevada Dept. of Motor Vehicles were routinely asked by staff whether they\u2019d like to also register to vote. (Current Republican Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske MAY have put an end to that.) Plus all those refugees to Las Vegas\/Clark County from California and Chicago who fail to leave their voting habits behind, of course.<\/p>\n

Electronic signature check and \u201crandom\u201d spot-checks of photo ID at the polls seem to have tightened things up a bit; a knowledgeable activist tells me the big remaining concern is that the final vote tallies from the electronic machines apparently move to the Secretary of State via the Internet, with an uncertain level of security.<\/p>\n

The \u201cWalking Away\u201d by Libertarians to Trump (Not to the Paul Ryan-Mitch McConnell GOP; to TRUMP), though not universal, is real, and totally unnoticed by the pollsters, who of course still oversample Dems, “yout’s,” and land-lines, missing those of us who screen our calls and see no need to abet their manipulative schemes.<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s a Red Wave in rural Nevada -\u2014 could be 75 percent above normal. Sen. Dean Heller is probably safe (which is not to say anyone should stay home, Tuesday); congressional districts that cross Las Vegas still in more doubt. I figure Cresent Hardy, R., is probably OK in the 4th (that would be a GOP takeaway); Danny Tarkanian in Las Vegas (trying for a second GOP takeaway in the 3rd; Jacky Rosen\u2019s old seat) will be a tighter race, but should finally pull it out absent massive fraud.<\/p>\n

(What, the TV networks have been telling you everything is close, close, close — that their \u201cgeneric ballot\u201d is even \u201cleaning Democrat\u201d? Would those be the same people who told you Miss Hillary had a 92 percent chance of grabbing the presidency in a \u201clandslide\u201d?<\/p>\n

Were you under the impression those folks were in the business of trying to keep you INFORMED of developing FACTS?<\/p>\n

For those who wisely avoid the daily deluge of anti-Trump propaganda from our previously \u201cMainstream Media,\u201d here\u2019s a year\u2019s worth of balanced, objective coverage of the Trump presidency in a couple of minutes, courtesy of Sundance at https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.com\/2018\/11\/05\/the-midterm-election-as-i-see-it\/<\/a> . It\u2019s stunning. Check it out: https:\/\/youtu.be\/qjUvfZj-Fm0<\/a> .)<\/p>\n

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‘DEAN HELLER LIES!’<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meantime, I turned on my car radio here in Nevada for about four minutes, last week. The political ads from some PAC I\u2019ve never heard of (if anyone could even understand the auctioneer\u2019s spiel before the fast-talking voice assured us \u201cThis ad not paid for by any candidate or candidate\u2019s committee\u201d) were all hate Heller: \u201cDean Heller lies! Heller lied three times! Heller said he\u2019d never cut your Medicare but he voted to cut Medicare! Ahhhh!\u201d<\/p>\n

Seriously. Variations of this were playing EVERY THREE MINUTES. Which is why my radio was on for only about four minutes.<\/p>\n

This kind of electronic carpet-bombing appears to be where the Dems are squandering many of those millions from Steyer, Bloomberg, etc. I was concerned for a few minutes, but then I got to thinking: That\u2019s it?<\/p>\n

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Dean Heller is a likeable, popular, seven-year incumbent U.S. senator, a solid conservative (we\u2019ll forgive him his brief episode of Never-Trump derangement) who\u2019s been in the public eye for almost 30 years as a state assemblyman, as Secretary of State (in which office he reportedly made Nevada the first state in the nation to implement an auditable paper trail to electronic voting machines — per Salon, the Guardian, and Wikipedia), and then four years as a popular congressman, never (so far as I know) losing an election. How credible is it that he would \u201cvote to cut Medicare\u201d? Besides, where are these \u201ccuts\u201d?<\/p>\n

This message is nothing but \u201cfear, hate and loathing\u201d that connects in no way with the Dean Heller Nevadans have gotten to know. Do they think we\u2019re idiots? That we all just moved here last week? Meantime, his challenger is one-term congresscritter Jacky Rosen, a computer programmer from Chicago via the University of Minnesota who was literally hand-picked by Harry Reid for that office, a freshman who favors gun control, Obamacare and a $15 minimum wage (and that’s only the stuff she proudly TELLS us about) who only won her current seat by a wafer-thin 47-to-46 percent (over the aforementioned Danny Tarkanian), two years ago, IN LAS VEGAS.<\/p>\n

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For those who don\u2019t know, I was only expecting a mild chuckle when I introduced myself to a Northern Nevada audience a few years back by saying \u201cI tell people I\u2019m from Nevada, but I\u2019m really from Las Vegas.\u201d Instead, the laughter and cheers rocked the room. Red Nevada doesn\u2019t LIKE liberal Las Vegas, any more than downstate Illinois likes being dominated by Chicago, or rural Californians like being run by corrupt L.A. and cloud-cuckooland San Francisco.<\/p>\n

You\u2019d think all the Dem money would be going into trying to make people feel comfortable about Jacky Rosen, assuring us she\u2019s a normal, common-sense wife and mom who loves to go hiking and target-shooting in the desert, or SOMETHING positive. (See good-looking Democrat Conor Lamb\u2019s VERY tight special-election win over Rick Saccone in Pennsylvania. Didn\u2019t his ads show him out shooting? Defuze the stereotype.)<\/p>\n

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In any normal year, this challenge by an urban imported leftist gun-grabbing beginner with no \u201cchops\u201d -\u2013 a one-termer who won by a hair\u2019s-breadth -\u2013 would be laughable. (She\u2019s hardly Catherine Cortez Masto, who may be a plodding Democrat foot-solder but who at least held a previous statewide office as state attorney general and who keeps her maiden name to remind folks her daddy was Manny Cortez, who ran the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority for, like, forever.)<\/p>\n

In fact, let me go out on a limb here: It IS laughable. Dean Heller will blow out-of-her-league Jacky Rosen out of the water, despite any and all Democrat efforts to bus illegal voters to the polls in Las Vegas. The Democrats, who clearly HAVE NO BENCH, should have spent their time and money coming up with an \u201cissues\u201d platform that would re-connect to anyone but their old \u201ccaptive constituencies\u201d in the inner cities . . . which are now being steadily eroded by the Trump Economic Boom. Like, tell us how you plan to make things better for the average Joe?<\/p>\n

Too late now.<\/p>\n

Are you ready for SOME MORE WINNING?<\/p>\n

p.s. \u2014 Once again, voters in Nevada\u2019s 36th Assembly District should vote for the dead guy, Denis Hof, which will allow the Nye County Commission to appoint a Republican replacement.<\/em><\/p>\n

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