SOCIAL: Travel to Vegas for last four days of Election

[Bob Seymour]

Hey Liz -
  Any of the rooms still available?  I or a co-worker may be
interested...
Bob
On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 14:53 -0700, Liz Pallatto wrote:
>  
> Hi folks,
>  
> This is from Liz Pallatto -- been too busy to sign up my other Gmail
> account on social yet.
>  
> So I am going to be traveling to Las Vegas for the last four days of
> the election to work with the Sierra Club and the Obama Campaign to
> get out the vote.   Wanted to see if any others out there would want
> to join me.   
>  
> Tickets right now on Southwest from SF (SF is cheaper!) or Oakland are
> still pretty cheap - $148 RT and I have booked 3 hotel rooms at a
> average rate of $40 a night in the old Downtown part of Las Vegas
> which is pretty cheesy and fun in a State Fair kind of way.   The two
> hotel rooms I have booked EXTRA about both doubles so if there were
> people that wanted to share the cost of 4 nights hotel to bring it to
> $80 for their stay, that would be possible.   rooms are are the El
> Cortez Hotel and Casino.
>  
> I went to Nevada to train staff there and learned alot about the
> politics in play there.   People were hopeful that for the first time,
> Nevada could go for a Democratic President and bring alot of smaller
> ticket Dems with him.   Also, I thought that it was kind of cool to
> work 12 hour days and still be able to get food and wander around with
> things to do when in that amped, campaign anxiety state of being.
> Plus -- Halloween in Vegas.   
>  
> IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN hotel rooms and/or joining as a
> walking/phoning posse in Nevada, email me.   I am going away on
> vacation so may take a bit to respond but rooms are booked and I am
> looking for folks to hang with.   
>  
> WHY NEVADA?
>  
> Lots of better reasons or succinct descriptons SOMEWHERE online but I
> couldn't find a summary so here are some disjoined thoughts -- sorry
> need to be quick here.   strike while iron is hot.
>  
> 5 Electoral Votes 
>  
> Nevada is an important part of a Western States Strategy that focuses
> on the new population growth in Western States that could help turn
> the tide towards Obama (CO, NV, NM, AZ).   There is a good Democratic
> challenger for a congressional seat in the Las Vegas area, and a good
> shot at wins in House and Senate that give Dems chance to redistrict
> to change lines for a few other Republican congressmen.   
>  
> Nevada has gone Republican in the last two presidential elections -
> President Bush beat John Kerry here by two points and Al Gore by four
> - as well as in eight of the last ten presidential elections. But
> Barack Obama feels he can win the state, thanks in part to an influx
> of outsiders - the state's population grew by more than 10 percent in
> three years, with many of the new residents coming from more liberal
> states. There has also been a significant influx of Hispanic
> residents, a group that tends to vote Democrat. 
> 
> One key issue in the state: The proposed nuclear waste dump at Yucca
> Mountain. McCain has suggested that the facility could be
> "unnecessary," though he favors it. Obama opposes the plan. 
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