The Democratic Machine in Nevada Might Be Faltering

Clearly it was an unhappy development, especially for a Democratic incumbent governor in the final weeks of a close reelection race, but it didn’t appear debilitating: The state’s largest teachers’ union announced last week that it would be withholding an endorsement. For connoisseurs of Nevada politics, though, the news was closer to the rumble of an approaching earthquake. “This would never have happened,” one Nevada Democratic insider says, “if Senator Reid were still alive.” Harry Reid was a singular, quirky figure in both American and Nevada politics: a Mormon and an accomplished amateur boxer who’d grown up impoverished in a… Read Full Article