Mark Amodei
The Numbers Game
September 28th, 2012
Could Nevada vote by a wide margin to re-elect Barack Obama and then elect a Republican to the Senate and to three of the four House seats? Yes. Read more »
What the Numbers in Nevada’s House Race Don’t Prove
September 16th, 2011
Kate Marshall lost to Mark Amodei by 20 percentage points in the race in Congressional District 2. What does it mean? Read more »
The Democratic-Republicans
September 2nd, 2011
The many names for the first political party created by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison included Republicans (not the same as the modern ones), Jeffersonians, Democrats and some combination thereof, including Democratic-Republicans. Unfortunately for Kate Marshall, it isn’t 1798, and being a Democratic-Republican doesn’t necessarily work. Read more »
Politics
Is Mark Amodei Too Moderate?
A mainstream Republican congressional candidate learns to talk Tea Party
August 25th, 2011
With less than a month to go before the special election to fill Dean Heller’s congressional seat, the race may have already hit its dramatic high point. That would be Republican Mark Amodei’s June campaign ad, in which a fictional Chinese newscast from the near future depicts how Democrats’ raising of the debt ceiling brought financial ruin to the United States and paved the way for China’s rise. Read more »
Politics
Taking Aim After Ames
August 25th, 2011
Today’s mass media have no better critic than Jon Stewart (or, should we say, Stewart with his producers and writers). Recently, he showed why, dedicating a Daily Show segment to Ron Paul finishing second in the Ames Straw Poll to Michele Bachmann. Granted, some of Paul’s beliefs are Out There, but his beliefs—call it his ideology or aura, or a combination of both—loom large in Nevada politics. Read more »
Does Amodei know his history?
June 29th, 2011
Mark Amodei, the former state senator and Nevada Mining Association leader now running as the Republican in Congressional District 2, has put out his first ad. Read more »
