Cross-posted at GOTVegas, where my wife, sister-in-law, and I are blogging about putting our Oakland, Ca lives on hold and spending 2 weeks volunteering for Barack in Clark County, NV.
Voting began yesterday all across Nevada, and according to the early numbers, turnout is already massive and unprecedented.
First, some general statistics. Nevada has just shy of 1.5 million registered voters, more than half of which (807k) are in Clark County (where Las Vegas is). Washoe County (Reno and Sparks) is the only other county in the state with more than 100k registered voters, with 231k. Clark and Washoe Counties contain more than 2/3 of Nevada's registered voters.
Going into the 2004 election, Republicans had approximately 4,400 more registered voters than Democrats. Bush won Nevada by 21,500 votes in 2004.
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