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October 25, 2004
Swingability of Nevada: Nuclear Waste Storage Plant a Political Issue
Who could have predicted two years ago that Bush and Kerry would spend time stumping in Nevada? But Nevada is unpredictable. Part of the reason the state keeps swinging back and forth is that more people keep moving in—this has been the fastest growing population for the past 15 years. Most of the state is empty, except for two big population centers: Reno, with Carson City and Lake Tahoe not far away, and Las Vegas, the biggest thing in the state.
In 2000, 62% of votes cast in Nevada came from Clark county, home to the Las Vegas strip. While the rest of the state went for Bush in large numbers, Gore won here by 6.5%. Kerry will try to increase that margin and take the state's 5 electoral votes.
As the October deadline for new voter registration passed, more Democrats were registered in the state than Republicans for the first time since 1999. One key issue—Yucca Mountain—Bush has endorsed the idea of putting a national nuclear waste storage site at the location, less than 100 miles away from Vegas. Kerry says he opposes the idea. With less than three weeks left, neither side was giving up on the state, making it one of their top ten battlegrounds.
Posted by State at October 25, 2004 12:25 AM
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