Two weeks after we revealed all three of the state’s Republican officials in Washington earned failing grades on the NAACP’s annual Legislative Report Card, a new study is out, blasting those same pols for adopting a decidedly Earth-unfriendly voting record.

Turns out, the usual suspects, U.S. Sen. John Ensign along with Reps. Dean Heller and Jon Porter, each earned failing grades in this latest evaluation, too. While Ensign scored lowest on the civil rights report card, this time Heller took bottom honors for voting down everything from mining reforms to grasslands protection, scoring a mere 15 points out of a possible 100. Porter earned the second-lowest grade, a 30 out of 100. Among is fellow rainbow warriors, Ensign actually garnered Nevada’s highest GOP grade, a 33 out of 100. In a state where voters ostensibly value diversity and cherish the environment, how is it that these guys got elected in the first place?

New state Democratic Party Chair Sam Lieberman tells CityLife he plans a statewide tour to meet with Democrats in each of Nevada’s 17 counties and fire up the party faithful for Election Day Nov. 4.

Since assuming the party’s mantle on Wednesday — after former Chair Jill Derby resigned to launch her campaign to unseat U.S. Rep. Dean Heller — Lieberman says he’ll give a series of speeches this weekend across the state to focus as much attention as possible on his party, which has electrified millions of voters across the country with its drama-laden nomination fight between U.S. Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. On Saturday morning, he told CityLife, he plans to invigorate delegates and assorted apparatchiks at the Clark County Democratic Party’s convention. A few hours later, he’ll zip north to Reno, where he’ll try to rouse attendees at the Democratic Party of Washoe County convention.

Lieberman says Dems will need to work like hell “to engage multiple generations and multiple populations of Democrats to rally around our candidates to make sure horrendous ‘Bush Experience’ comes to an end.”

Democratic victories should pop up rapid-fire come Election Day if Obama is the party’s nominee, at least according to averages of the latest presidential polling. RealClear Politics shows Obama stuffing McCain by more than 5 points.

A couple of weeks ago, CityLife reported Barack Obama was raising campaign cash at record rates. What a difference two weeks make. The Atlantic reports those numbers were way off.

It now seems that Obama could raise as much as $50 million in February. Conservatives predict he’ll hit the $60-million mark.

Taken with today’s report that Clinton’s campaign spending is worrying her donors — and with just one percentage point separating her from Obama in the latest Texas poll — March might come in like a lion that devours what’s left of Clinton’s machine. March 4 is her D-Day.

Necrogasm (n.) [NECRO- + (OR)GASM]

Ex.: “Clutching the latest Iraq war casualty reports, John McCain shuddered as the sweet thrill of a necrogasm rolled through his frail body.”

When it comes to digesting the endless torrents of campaign bravura coming down the culture tubes these days, I’ll take Obama’s achey smoothitude over Hillary’s obsessive triangulation any ol’ day, though … sometimes I feel like I’m being drafted into some army of unholy uplift. This old-fogey conservative Daniel Larison quite nicely nailed it.