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THE ELECTION DAY BLOG

T-minus 2 hours until polls close: Latest statewide update. 132,547 have voted. That's 11 percent today and 36 percent overall. Clark down 5 percent at less than 63 percent of turnout, Washoe at registration at 20 percent, rurals up 5 percent over registration at 17 percent. I see red people. All on the Dems for after-work voting or carnage will be massive.

The early voting blog: Updated every day with numbers and analysis

FINAL, FINAL, 5:45PM, 11/3: Absentees counted since Saturday morning bring GOP lead to 24,000 ballots, 8 percent. Totals. MORE NUMBERS TO CONSIDER BEFORE TUESDAY, 10:30 AM, 11/3:

Another big property manager threatens renters with hikes if margin tax passes

First it was Camden Properties trying to frighten residents not to vote for the margin tax. Corporate officials eventually backed off, saying an overly zealous Vegas local sent it out. But Monday, Ovation Property Management, another Vegas apartment giant, followed suit, with this missive to its residents, which was the usual Chicken Little stuff and also elevated Speaker Marilyn Kirkpatrick to Congress:

My tribute to one of the greats: Bob Stoldal

MY COLUMN: Predictions for Campaign '14

In 1986, a two-term congressman named Harry Reid successfully ran for the U.S. Senate with the slogan, “Independent Like Nevada.”

Washoe County DA Dick Gammick attacks media (and not just me), lies in last-minute piece for Adam Laxalt

Washoe County District Attorney Dick Gammick, who has endorsed Adam Laxalt for AG, sent out a missive today through the Washoe GOP that was positively Nixonian. Allow me to annotate:

Adelson gives Sandoval $300,000

In two contributions during the last 10 days, Las Vegas Sands boss Sheldon Adelson gave Gov. Brian Sandoval a total of $300,000 for his political action committee. Most of the money the governor raised was then transferred to the Nevada Jobs Coalition, run by Sandoval's consultants and the vehicle for the third-party spending in what looks like a successful attempt to take over the state Senate. Sandoval also took $50,000 each from Wynn Resorts, SLS and Resorts World, as well as $25,000 from MGM Resorts on his way to a $558,000 haul for his New Nevada PAC.

The national embarrassment that is UNLV, where academic freedom goes to die

Documents show gamers pressured UNLV after margin tax study

Records_10.28.14_Part1.pdf, Records_10.28.14_Part2.pdf, Records_10.28.14_Part3.pdf, 2014-10-28_Redaction_Log.pdf

UPDATE, 12:45 PM, 10/30: While my producer, Dana Gentry, obtained quite a few documents from UNLV that revealed the university in damage-control mode and pressured by gamers, the university withheld many under the flimsy "Executive/Deliberative Process Exemption." That is just ludicrous based on what UNLV released, which also could have fallen under whatever deliberations -- the euphemism for damage control -- took place.

Democrats try to survive coming red wave; margin tax foes bring out biggest gun of all

Three ads that show you the state of play: Democratic County Commissioner Susan Brager takes no prisoners after seeing GOP turnout and uses Roger and Pete; Rep. Steven Horsford goes up against Cresent Hardy with a Tea Party All-Star team; and the tax lady, Carole Vilardo, takes on the DEEPLY FLAWED margin tax, which could lose by a lot.