Harry Reid Breaks Ribs, Bones In His Face While Exercising At Home

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49. Check your "hugely popular" at the door, please.

Sandoval won heavily this time around because the Dems refused to support a viable candidate (he won the last time because he's charismatic, knows how to lie through his abnormally white teeth, and seriously sucked up to the Hispanic population of the state).

The scuttlebutt was that Harry made a back-room deal with Sandoval in order to get Medicaid expanded in the state. If Sandoval supported it (which he did), then the Dems wouldn't make a serious challenge to his reelection bid (which they didn't). So, the party refused to support viable candidates - among them the very popular termed out AG, Katherine Cortez-Mastos (we elect all our politicians, so the governor's cabinet is a mixed bag, party-wise) . . . and ran Bob Goodman, who no one had ever heard of before the election season started. Even then, he received minimal support from the party - I hope he got some kind of nice pay-off for agreeing to be made a laughing stock.

Nevada is divided pretty evenly, with the south (Clark Co./Las Vegas) more liberal than the north. Dems didn't do well this election for a variety of reasons (turn-out among younger voters was abysmal, particularly in the south) - but Sandoval didn't win just because of that. He won because the Dem party gave the voters no real choice and they responded with a resounding "meh".

As to whether or not he'll take Harry's seat? It's a possibility - Harry manages to piss off Dems in the state on a regular basis. But it wouldn't be a vote for Sandoval as much as an indictment of Harry.

"Hugely popular" is a gross over-statement. Really.