{"id":344,"date":"2009-10-12T15:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T23:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2009\/10\/12\/Case-Bets-Reid-Goodman-Madison-Holly--a-kegger"},"modified":"2009-10-12T15:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T23:06:00","slug":"case-bets-reid-goodman-madison-holly-a-kegger-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/case-bets-reid-goodman-madison-holly-a-kegger-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Case Bets: Reid, Goodman, Madison (Holly) & a kegger"},"content":{"rendered":"

As they say on Dancing with the Stars<\/em>, in no particular order …<\/p>\n

Eight against Harry<\/strong>: For a speedy primer on the myriad challengers to Sen. Harry Reid<\/strong> (D-NV), you can't go wrong with Jon Ralston<\/strong>'s droll and speedy primer<\/a>. It even gets props from John Chachas<\/strong> (R-Central Park West), who recently tossed his homburg into the ring. At least one among the posse Ralston calls "Snow White [Archon Corp<\/strong>. Treasurer Sue Lowden<\/strong>] and the Seven Dwarfs" has a sense of humor.<\/p>\n

Reason vs. rage<\/strong>: While Steve Wynn<\/strong> was ranting on the boob tube this weekend, Thomas Krugman<\/strong>'s column offers an indirect rebuttal<\/a> to Wynn's Johnny One-Note ("Tax policy!") table-pounding.<\/p>\n

Run, Oscar, run!<\/strong> If these poll numbers<\/a> don't nudge the World's Happiest Mayor into the 2010 gubernatorial race, perhaps nothing will. Oscar Goodman<\/strong> not only has the highest favorables among Nevada politicians included in the survey, he wins one theoretical electoral matchup and ties for first in the other.<\/p>\n

Gov. Jim Gibbons<\/strong>' political future looks bleak (read<\/em>: borderline nonexistent) and there's not much comfort for Hapless Harry, either. Just think how much worse it would be if Reid had an opponent possessing genuine gravitas<\/em>. Besides, given the rising tide of discontent<\/a> among Nevada's progressives, there's a good chance that much of Hapless Harry's old base will just stay home on Election Day.<\/p>\n

In Oscar's domain<\/strong>, an architect suggests ways to revitalize Downtown by decreasing energy use, increasing sustainability and generally targeting long-term cost savings<\/a>. The proposal makes a lot of sense — a virtual guarantee it will be ignored.<\/p>\n

Holly Madison tapped<\/strong> an Oktoberfest keg at Siegfried & Roy<\/strong> hangout Hofbrauhaus<\/strong> last Friday. [Your punchline here<\/em>.]<\/p>\n

"Serpent Head" Jr.<\/strong>: If CNN<\/strong> ever has to let James Carville<\/strong> go on vacation, don't worry …<\/p>\n

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… SNL<\/em>'s Bill Hader<\/strong> can fill in and nobody will notice a difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As they say on Dancing with the Stars, in no particular order … Eight against Harry: For a speedy primer on the myriad challengers to Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), you can't go wrong with Jon Ralston's droll and speedy primer. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51,14,26,4,117,52,50,33,32,8,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}