It’s Halloween morning, and Governor Romney got started on a five-day eight state tour for the McCain-Palin ticket in Nevada, rallying door-to-door canvassers in the Las Vegas suburb of Henderson and meeting with phone bank volunteers at the state party headquarters in Summerlin.

Then it was on to Reno, followed by a stop at the Douglas County Republican Party phone bank in Gardnerville and another drop-by at the GOP HQ in Carson City. The long day ended in Farmington, New Mexico, where the traveling group will bed down for the night.

Thanks to an RNC-chartered plane, Romney will be puddle-jumping across the interior west, the heartland states of Missouri and Indiana, the battlegrounds of Ohio and Pennsylvania, before ending with an Election Day rally in Manchester, New Hampshire.

On board for the trip are longtime Republican National Committeeman Ron Kaufman from Massachusetts, press adviser Eric Fehrnstrom and loyal aide Will Ritter.

The night previous in Las Vegas, Kaufman and Ritter gave an expert demonstration in how to maintain your composure in the face of large blackjack and roulette losses. Neither showed any despair at all; they just scooped up their ever-diminishing pot, moved to the next table and placed more losing bets. It was their own version of “spreading the wealth.” Barack Obama would have been proud.

In northern Nevada, the governor was met by enthusiastic crowds, and was joined by Lieutenant Governor Brian Krolicki, Congressman Dean Heller, actor Jon Voight and John Ratzenberger, who played know-it-all postman Cliff Clavin on the long-running series “Cheers.”