In The News: Department of Political Science
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Brace yourself, Nevada. If nasty commercials and mailboxes stuffed with campaign fliers incite annoyance, it will get a whole lot worse if a bill making its way through the Legislature becomes law.
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Jeb Bush has his eyes on Nevada -- a state that is aiming to become a bigger player in presidential politics.
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Once an afterthought, Latino voters have moved to the center of the 2016 presidential campaign, the object of early and unprecedented courtship by candidates on both sides.
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Henderson’s City Council has voted on more than 3,000 issues over the past three years. And all five members have agreed almost every time.
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The idea of breaking up the Clark County School District has been around for decades without really going anywhere — until now.
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UNLV professor David Damore plans to discuss Nevada’s history as a swing state.
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Hillary Clinton signaled with her first Nevada hires how important growing and winning the Latino vote is to her presidential campaign here.
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Well before Republicans fired off a volley of legislation this year to weaken Nevada’s weapon laws, this gun-loving state already had a reputation for its loose firearm restrictions.
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Former Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto on Wednesday launched her campaign for U.S. Sen. Harry Reid’s seat in 2016 and immediately was endorsed by the Democratic Party hierarchy from Nevada to the nation’s capital.
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The glossy mailers started arriving a couple of weeks ago, looking like ordinary campaign ads.
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Republicans in control of the Nevada Senate are keeping Democrats on their toes, slipping ideas historically pushed by the Democratic Party into bills backed by the GOP.