Nevada has had a Republican governor since 1999. Sandoval, the current governor, is in his second term, was reelected about year ago with 90% of the vote in the Republican primary and 70% of the vote in the general election, and currently has something like a 2&#x2F;3 approval rating in state polls.<p>His Wikipedia page currently has one section which is a long hit piece written by pro-solar flacks, but that seems likely to be cleaned up as soon as other Wikipedia editors take notice. Other than that, I don’t see much evidence that he’s in any particular trouble.<p>“Political suicide” seems like a fairly dramatic exaggeration, unless you’re sitting on some information the rest of us don’t know about.<p>(Note: I think the Nevada Republican party is crazy, and am strongly pro-solar myself... but let’s not kid ourselves here.)<p>Edit: Sandoval’s statement about the SolarCity announcement, <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.news3lv.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;lib&#x2F;166&#x2F;0&#x2F;e&#x2F;8&#x2F;0e8f2127-0e76-464b-8a57-d132ff6b27c8&#x2F;FinalSC1615.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.news3lv.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;lib&#x2F;166&#x2F;0&#x2F;e&#x2F;8&#x2F;0e8f2127-0e76-464...</a>