Said another way, too many white people voted.
LAS VEGAS — Lucy Flores was a candidate with a life story straight out of Hollywood — one of 13 children who grew up in a rough Las Vegas neighborhood, a former gang member who straightened out, went to law school, became a state legislator and now was running for lieutenant governor. She earned glowing profiles in the national press.
Last week, however, Flores was crushed in the lieutenant governor's race, doomed by dismal Democratic turnout that also toppled many of this state's diverse slate of rising young Democrats. They included attorney general hopeful Ross Miller, the secretary of state and son of a former governor, and Rep. Steven Horsford, one of the few African-Americans in Congress whose district is not majority black.
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