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Nevada's delegate selection woes continue. The Associated Press reported:

Citing flaws in the selection process, a key Republican National Committee panel on Friday recommended that neither of Nevada's two dueling delegations be seated at the party's national convention in September.

The Republican National Committee's contest panel rejected both a group backed by supporters of former Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, as well as a delegation appointed by the state party [...].

This move by the RNC has annoyed pretty much everyone on all sides of the debate.

A pro-union political action group is staging a series of public events around Nevada attacking U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.)  over the next several days, hitting the presumptive Republican presidential nominee on foreclosers, Yucca Mountain, and his support for Gov. Jim Gibbons (R).

The "Change to Win" campaign, a joint effort from seven major unions, will be holding protests in Reno, Carson City, Las Vegas and Pahrump between Monday and Thursday, according to a release issued by the group.

The Nevada events will kick off a series of similar rallies in battleground states across the country.

It doesn't get much better on FOX than seeing the rare sight of Alan Colmes emerging from his protective shell and exposing Sean Hannity for the idiotic, hypocritical windbag he is.

The Reno Gazette Journal is reporting that presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama will appear in Reno on Sunday.

Obama, the junior U.S. senator from Illinois, is scheduled to appear at a town hall meeting in front of a few hundred area residents with tickets to the event.

The appearance is Obama's first to northern Nevada since U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) conceded the nomination, the paper reports. Clinton appeared last weekend in Henderson on Obama's behalf.

A recent poll shows Obama trailing presumptive Republican nominee, U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) by a small margin in the Silver State.

Over the last couple of days, Sen. John McCain’s rhetoric toward Russia has mostly been Georgia-supported, Wikipedia-lifted leadership posturing, including accusing Russia of wanting to restore its old empire.

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain is carrying a small lead in Nevada over his Democratic rival Barack Obama, a new poll from Rasmussen finds.

Forty-five percent of the 700 likely voters polled support McCain, the senior senator from Arizona, with 42 percent saying they back Obama, the junior senator from Illinois. McCain's lead is within the polls 4.5-percentage point margin of error.

The presidential campaign of U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) will release a new ad in Nevada Thursday attacking his Republican opponent in the race for the presidency, U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on a range of issues.

The ad attacks McCain on his support for the Iraq war, his opposition to new taxes on oil revenues and a voting record that the ad says supports President Bush's policies "95 percent of the time."

It begins playing in Nevada along with 15 other contested states on Thursday. Watch the video below. 

RNC Deputy Chair Frank DonatelliAs far as the RNC's Frank Donatelli is concerned, the votes are already there for presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain to take Nevada in November. Now, he said, it's up to the GOP to go out and take them.

Donatelli -- the deputy chairman of the Republican National Committee -- visited the Silver State Monday. He said McCain holds a substantive policy advantage over his presumptive Democratic opponent, U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), on a number of issues Nevadans care about.

"As far as the message war, we think Sen. McCain has the advantage on taxes, increasing production of domestic energy sources, and being ready as commander-in-chief from day one," Donatelli told PolitickerNV.com.

A pure toss-up state, a mix of demographic issues, booming population, foreclosure crisis in the south, moral issues of importance in the north, collectivist unions that matter and Libertarian feelings that matter: Nevada is a battleground state in the battleground West.

The Pindell Report, a new Politicker.com product, even calls Nevada the No. 1 presidential swing state this cycle.

"For those who enjoyed Florida in 2000 or Ohio in 2004, meet Nevada in 2008," said James Pindell, Politicker.com's Managing Editor and author of The Pindell Report.

The Pindell Report aims to provide the country's most dynamic and richly reported ranking and analysis of U.S. Senate, U.S. House and gubernatorial races, plus presidential swing states.