Nevada Miscellany

-Despite the national profile he's taken on this year Sheldon Adelson is still largely unknown in Nevada. 56% of voters don't enough about him to have an opinion one way or the other. He gets negative reviews from the folks who are familiar with him- 17% rate him positively to 27% with a negative opinion. Republicans narrowly like him (22/16) but Democrats are considerably more unified in their dislike of him (10/41).

-There's one thing Nevada voters across party lines can agree on: they love them some brothels. 64% think brothels should be legal to only 23% who think they should be illegal. The most striking thing in these numbers is that an equal 66% of Democrats and Republicans each think that brothels should be legal. In late March we found that only 20% of Nevada GOP voters supported gay marriage so that's an interesting take on family values there.

-Nevada voters have a more positive image of Reno than they do of Las Vegas, although both cities poll pretty well. 58% have a favorable view of Reno to 13% with a negative one. Las Vegas comes down at 53% positive and 26% unfavorable. The cities have very similar numbers among Democrats and independents. What puts Reno ahead overall is that it's at 65/7 with Republicans while Vegas gets a weaker 52/27 rating from them.

-We've had a lot of bad news for John Ensign over the years so here's a change of pace. The former Senator recently returned to his previous profession as a veterinarian, and 54% of Nevada pet owners say they would trust Ensign with their pets to only 29% who would not. Given that he left office with a 29/55 approval rating it's clear voters like him a lot more as a vet than they did as a Senator.

And 2 final notes from Nevada:

-Democrats lead the generic legislative ballot 43-39. Their voters are a little bit more united than the Republicans right now, and they also have a 32-30 advantage with independents.

-23% of Nevada voters believe in UFO's. 56% do not. There's an ideological divide on the issue with 'very liberal' voters at 32% the most likely to believe in them and 'very conservative' voters at 14% the least likely to.

Full results here

Comments

[FORMER BANKER]

What hypocrites!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Murraylbrown]

I'm glad to see that the two parties can agree on a couple things: We don't need and never had habeas corpus and WHORES!

[Patrick Stuart]

I wish the question "do you believe in UFOs" had been worded better. A UFO, in the strictest definition, is any unidentified flying object, and unquestionably exists.

On the other end of the spectrum, assuming the question is about aliens, it never asks where they might exist. Asking if aliens might exist somewhere in the universe is a wholly different animal than asking if they visit earth and stick instruments into the private parts of humans.

Finally, I will assume that most of those polled understood the question to mean neither of what I mentioned above. Hopefully this will dampen the old canard that, by very nature of being conservative, one is necessarily more prone to scientific quackery than liberals (this study helps show that both sides have their loonies).

[realnrh]

Democratic loonies tend to believe in UFOs and magical crystal vibrations and have no influence. Republican loonies believe that tax cuts are a solution to all government problems and that successive Republican and Democratic governments in Hawaii conspired to fake a birth certificate and are the heart of their party.