During one televised debate, Mr Bernstein fumbled a question posed by his opponent about water rights in northern Nevada, and seemed unable to name the counties involved in the dispute.

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The presumptive Republican nominee for president of the United States included the so-called Holy Land in his itinerary for secular purposes, seeking support in precincts with concentrations of Jewish voters, including those in so-called battleground states, such as Palm Beach and Broward counties in Florida, Clark County, Nevada, and Cuyahoga County, Ohio.

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Election officials in Nevada only report party registration for Clark and Washoe counties, where the major cities of Las Vegas and Reno are located.

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Howard Hirsch says that if McCain is going to win Nevada, he'll have to do even better in the rural counties than President Bush did.

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