The Las Vegas Sun's Jon Ralston said Thursday the NBC/Marist poll that shows President Obama with only a two-point lead on Mitt Romney in Nevada is "not good news for the president."
ROBERTS: Jon, let’s talk about that more cause exactly when we break down about the economy issue. Romney leads in Iowa. Romney also is leading in Colorado, in your home state of Nevada. It’s a dead even look here. If Nevada unemployment remains in the double digits that’s higher than the national average, so what’s keeping the president treading water?
RALSTON: Well, it’s just what you just said. It’s not just that we have the highest unemployment rate in the country, Thomas. We’re also the epicenter of the foreclosure crisis. It’s really hurting here in Clark County, Las Vegas, which is a big democratic area of the state and certainly the president is not running as strongly here as he was in 2008 when he won the state by 12 points. And so there’s a lot of people here who have been hurt by the economy, maybe having second thoughts about the president. I think that this poll is not good news for the president, even though it shows that because there are some internals, for instance, that show Hispanics at 19 percent of the electorate here. I don’t think that’s going to happen in November. This is going to be very close and think there’s some ominous signs for the president.