Pick a story.  How about this one.  Respectable Congressman from conservative, rural NV runs for Governor (while his wife and possible future First Lady runs for Congress – see below), conducts a respectable albeit lackluster campaign, meets his political consultant and Nevada icon Sig Rogich for dinner, Rogich invites two lovely ladies (not their wives) for drinks at their table, Gibbons walks one woman to her car in the nearby parking garage where he claims she stumbled because she had too much to drink.  She claims he grabbed her sexually.  Either way, what was Rogich thinking?  Gibbons leaves with her alone, and she’s too drunk to drive.  Rogich then proceeds to intervene with the police to stop the story.  The Gibbons campaign fumbles the story from the beginning and succeeds in making it the top story of the campaign and the country for weeks.  The woman’s story is never proven, and the garage cameras never show them entering the garage – corroborating Gibbons’ story.  Nevada elects Gibbons Governor, despite himself.

The son of President Jimmy Carter waged one of the weakest campaigns Nevada has seen.  We never really heard why Ensign should be replaced.  We never really heard much of anything other than Carter opposed Bush.  That wasn’t even close to enough.  He lost 55%-41%.

So Gibbons won even though he ran a horrible campaign.  What does that say for Titus?  After starting her campaign with hopes of a professional organization and statewide promise, she lost to Gibbons who was surrounded by scandal and who himself only garnered 47.9%.

What was it with the second district?  Maybe it’s because all the attention is usually on Clark County instead of rural Nevada.  Dawn Gibbons would have lost with no opponent.  In the conservative second district, voters never – never – wanted a possible future first lady be their congresswoman instead.  Are you kidding?  A working First Lady?  And a politician to boot?  In this district?  One of the most Ill-fated campaigns from the very beginning.  Dawn Gibbons came in third behind Heller and Sharon Angle – 36%-35%-25%.

The campaign to legalize marijuana claims to have made 30,000 get-out-the-vote phone calls total all year, 5,000 of those on election day. Wow? Really? I’m told that in one Congressional district alone, Jon Porter’s campaign made 30,000 calls a day.