Quote of the Day

“I recall a conversation with a prominent gaming executive when he was asked to support [then-Rep. Jim] Gibbons four years ago. He wondered why the state’s power elite would anoint someone who was quietly embarrassing in D.C. amid 435 members and give him the chance to be loudly embarrassing in the state’s most important and high-profile job. Good question.” — Jon Ralston on Midnight Jim’s hopeless deficit in the polls (not likely to be helped by the revelation that Gibbons left major policy decisions to a top campaign donor), making him a couple of weeks shy of becoming a lame-duck governor.