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Here is the roster of speakers for the Republican National Convention.

It doesn't get much better on FOX than seeing the rare sight of Alan Colmes emerging from his protective shell and exposing Sean Hannity for the idiotic, hypocritical windbag he is.

Robert List was part of a group of young prosecutors who once played a major role in Nevada politics. List's rise in politics was meteoric: he was 31-years-old when he was elected Ormsby County District Attorney in 1966 (a post Paul Laxalt held in the 1950's), and was elected state Attorney General four years later.

List, at 42, won election as Governor in 1978. He won 82% in the GOP primary, and defeated Democrat Robert Rose (who became Lieutenant Governor when Harry Reid ran against Laxalt for the U.S. Senate in 1974) by a 56%-40% margin.

Eliot Spitzer is just the latest in a long list of political sex scandals that goes back to the Continental Congress. Politicker.com has a list of America’s Top 53 Political Sex Scandals that includes prostitutes, sex with minors, strippers, extramarital affairs, massages, nude swim parties, and even a murder. CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE LIST

Ariz. Sen. John McCain campaigns in Michigan.: Getty Images PhotoRepublican presidential hopeful John McCain has opened his first campaign offices in Nevada and is furiously building a staff here, according to Paul Jackson, McCain’s Nevada state director.  These moves come as a new poll by the Reno Gazette-Journal shows McCain with a lead in the state for the first time since May.

“We’ve been working day and night,” said Jackson, describing McCain’s newly-minted Nevada effort.  “Little sleep and lots of coffee.”

Nevada’s Jan. 19 Republican caucus has been largely overlooked by the Republican field, with the exceptions of former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney and Tex. Congressman Ron Paul, as they’ve focused instead on Michigan’s primary Tuesday and South Carolina’s Saturday.  Despite McCain’s new efforts here, his campaign will have a lot of catching up to do to compete with the strong organization that Romney, in particular, has built in the state.

With GOP presidential candidates largely ignoring the Nevada presidential caucus on Saturday -- Ron Paul is the only Republican scheduled to be in the state this week -- the contest may offer some evidence as to the value of endorsements in a race that may be wide open. Here's a list of our GOP stakeholders, along with their percentage in the Reno Gazette-Journal poll - which suggests the possibility of a four-way contest on the Republican side:

After New Hampshire, should you believe the pollsters? The Reno Gazette-Journal  poll, conducted by Research 2000, has a new Nevada presidential caucus poll that shows Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in a statistical dead heat among likely Democratic caucus voters: Obama 32%, Clinton 30%. And John Edwards is in range with 27%.

On the Republican side, the poll has John McCain and Rudy Giuliani in also in a dead heat, with McCain leading 22%-18%. Mike Huckabee is at 16%, Mitt Romney is at 15%, Fred Thompson at 11%, Ron Paul at 6%, and Duncan Hunter at 1%.

The RGJ’s Anjeanette Damon has the new Research 2000 Nevada presidential caucus poll numbers. The survey, conducted January 11-13, has a 4.5 percent margin of error. The sample size is 500 likely Republican caucus voters and 500 likely Democratic caucus voters.  read more »

If John McCain wins the Republican nomination for President, expect pundits to remove U.S. Senator John Ensign from the list of potential running mates: it is unlikely that the Senator from Arizona would pick a Republican from an adjoining state as his Vice Presidential candidate.  There has been some speculation that Ensign could wind up under consideration for the national ticket with one of the other candidates, more likely Rudy Giuliani.