McCain's Las Vegas coverage dominated by his support for Yucca Mountain

All politics is local and all presidential elections are state-by-state elections. That's why this latest report from Jed is very interesting. McCain was in Nevada touting nuclear power on Nevada. But, when Nevadans hear about nuclear power, they think about nuclear waste -- and that means Yucca Mountain, which is the planned site for disposing high level nuclear waste. It's about 80 miles from Las Vegas. That subject dominated the local news coverage:



And, Jed analysis is right on point:

By the way, isn't it interesting how local political coverage tends to focus on real issues, whereas national political coverage tends to focus on the meaningless stuff? I wonder what Dean Broder has to say about that.

I think this helps explain why Barack manages to do so well in so many state and national polls despite having a national media that is in love with Teflon John.

All politics is local and all presidential elections are really state-by-state elections. So simple, but lost on so many of those pundits riding around on the bus with John McCain.