Blogs: Politics: The Early Line

Nevada political roundup: Stocks slide, VP candidates

By Megan McCloskey · October 10, 2008 · 11:57 AM

Cue the menacing soundtrack — the horror continues on Wall Street. I’m waiting for Jamie Lee Curtis to go screaming through the trading floor. Panic usurped control of the markets this week, and the news just keeps getting worse. General Motors’ stock hit lows yesterday not seen since 1950, the Bush administration is meeting with congressional leaders, possibly today, about forking over government cash to troubled U.S. banks and economists now predict the economy could keep declining until mid-2009, forcing ...

Poll gives Heller edge over Derby

By David McGrath Schwartz · October 8, 2008 · 12:54 PM

2nd Congressional District race A new Reno Gazette-Journal poll has Rep. Dean Heller, R-Carson City, with an expanded lead over Democratic challenger Jill Derby. Heller had 48 percent, Derby had ...

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Nevada political roundup: GOP pushes for photo ID voting bill

By David McGrath Schwartz · October 7, 2008 · 4:03 PM

Updated at 4:03 p.m. Republicans are using the raid on the Las Vegas’ office of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now over alleged voter fraud to push an ...

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Nevada political roundup: Market meltdown and weekend highlights

By Lisa Mascaro · October 6, 2008 · 11:14 AM

WASHINGTON — Nobody said the $700 billion bailout would make everything OK. But watching the Dow slip below 10,000 this morning was probably not what folks were hoping for on ...

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Minutes after Reid’s speech, bailout gets Senate’s OK

By Lisa Mascaro · October 1, 2008 · 10:33 PM

WASHINGTON — The 12 votes still needed in the House to pass the $700 billion bailout legislation wasn’t the topic for discussion tonight. The Senate had just approved a slightly ...

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Reid: Senate will debate bailout Wednesday night

By Lisa Mascaro · September 30, 2008 · 5:11 PM

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said tonight that the Senate will take up an amended version of the $700 billion bailout bill when Congress returns late Wednesday.

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Obama, in Reno, calls for passage of Wall Street bailout plan

By David McGrath Schwartz · September 30, 2008 · 10:30 AM

Sen. Barack Obama told a Reno audience that Congress needs to act on the $700 billion financial bailout plan, which failed Monday shaking the stock market.

Nevada political roundup: The bailout, Obama up in battlegrounds

By J. Patrick Coolican · September 30, 2008 · 12 PM

Buy! Buy! Buy! Sell! Sell! Sell! I have no money, so can’t participate in this great historic moment of panic, but it is fun watching! The Sun’s Lisa Mascaro looks ...

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Reid says he’ll do ‘everything possible’ on bailout bill

By Lisa Mascaro · September 30, 2008 · 9:06 AM

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid opened the Senate today saying he will “continue doing everything possible” to move the bailout bill forward in coming days. Congress is quiet ...

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Nevada political roundup: House debates financial market ‘work-out’

By Lisa Mascaro · September 29, 2008 · 8:54 AM

WASHINGTON — Greetings, Early Liners from the nation’s capital, where the House is getting ready to vote this morning on the $700 billion bailout for the financial markets. A number ...

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Politics: The Early Line

Political news and analysis from the Sun's reporting team, focusing in on the 2008 presidential race, Nevada's Presidential Caucus and the national, state and local political scenes.