Get a load o' Marty O'Donnell

Focus groups: Pro or con? Despite leaning toward the latter (sometimes with malice) I'll bring to your attention in case you missed it an NPR focus group of Nevada swing voters saying they aren't a-scared of the word "socialism." I'm noting it because there are people in Nevada's political-industrial complex who think more highly of focus groups than I do,  and this one will unnerve them. In both parties.

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There's a newspaper adage, known among journalism geeks as Betteridge's law of headlines, that says if a headline ends with a question mark the answer is no. That doesn't really apply here (though Susie Lee's campaign could conceivably make an argument otherwise). A related though routinely ignored rule of thumb holds that a question mark should only be used in a headline if the story answers the question. This story does. Dana Gentry reports: Who is Marty O’Donnell?

So you're telling me there's a chance. Nevada’s top Colorado River negotiator says lower-basin states are still pressing for adjustments and attempting to forge consensus-based alternatives before federally mandated water cuts are finalized. Jeniffer Solis reports: Colorado River negotiations continue as states await fed decision

Stranger things. Trump keeps working the mail ballot issue like a dog working a bone. In the process, he’s keeping alive the prospect that he’ll, oh, declare some harebrained "emergency" and seize control of who gets mail ballots and who doesn’t as an election-rigging means to to keep Republicans in control of both houses of Congress. The other day Las Vegas professional conspiracy theorist and MAGA media figurine Wayne Allyn Root was egging Trump on to declare an emergency, to which Trump replied “Let me just say that stranger things have happened, OK?" Odds are Trump doesn't know what he's going to do, and was just making noises with his pie hole without forethought on Root's show, filling the air with words that may or may not mean anything because Trump's book should have been titled "The Art of Filling the Air with Words." Alas, a feckless and waffling Trump is a dangerous one. Humiliating and disgracing himself and his country, Trump has trapped himself in an Iran quagmire with no way out. And there's no telling what a cornered animal might do. But I digress. Via the D.C. bureau: Trump administration urges Supreme Court to rule soon on limiting vote-by-mail in midterms

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