Nevada Congresswoman in Fight to Defend Seat as Tide Turns Against Democrats

News Analysis
Rep. Dina Titus (D-Nev.) is risking her second midterm defeat in two different districts in the last 12 years, as polls show her Republican opponent, Mark Robertson, a retired U.S. Army colonel, with a lead and the momentum in the waning days of the general election contest in Nevada’s 1st Congressional District.
Titus, a 72-year-old former political science professor, lost narrowly to Republican Joe Heck in Nevada’s 3rd Congressional District during the Tea Party-inspired red wave in 2010 during the Obama administration.
Two years later, she moved to what was then called Nevada’s “safest” congressional district for Democrats, pushing out a young, popular Latino Democrat who was favored by then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for the seat, according to a Las Vegas newspaper account at the time….}