Assembly District 29

RENO -- Filing done, the top races in the state have come into focus and politics-watchers have a lot to look forward to this season.

Reeling from three consecutive special election losses, congressional Republicans will have their hands full holding on to the 3rd congressional district and, in a watershed year, the 2nd. Control of the state Senate rests on the thinnest of one-seat majorities, and the Democrats' coveted "veto-proof" majority is only one pick-up away. Here's a brief rundown of the races to watch and how they could all play out:

There's a right way and a boring way to make your filing for office a press announcement.

The boring way is that you go down to the elections department and bring your friends or the family pooch and hope someone thinks that it is a Hallmark moment.

The right way is to file for office and announce that as a new candidate you out-raised an incumbent who then dropped out of the race, have been walking your neighborhood for months and then topped the $100,000 mark in money raised before the first day of filing.

To see the right way to do things, look to AD 29 star candidate Sean Fellows. 

Henderson- Although it’s only mid-March, Sean Fellows is already knocking on doors in Assembly District 29, hoping to build the momentum to unseat Democratic Assemblywoman Susan Gerhardt come Nov. 4.

Fellows, a 27-year-old Air Force Reserve Captain, is considered one of the few bright spots for Nevada Republicans in an otherwise troubling year.  His campaign strategy relies on direct voter contact to build name recognition and hopefully peel away enough votes in his mildly Democratic district to lead him to an upset victory in the fall.  That direct voter contact centers on knocking on doors, practicing the old-school retail politics with modern technology and a personal touch.

PolitickerNV.com accompanied Fellows on an early afternoon walk of one of the district’s precincts Thursday to see his brand of retail politics in action and get an idea of his burgeoning campaign.