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New Citizen Voters in Colorado

Ryan Rivera | Posted 07.05.2008 | Home


Ryan Rivera

Hundreds of thousands of new citizens will be casting their votes in November, and in the swinging Southwest, these disproportionately Latino and Democratic voters could cinch tight elections.

Nevada Ron Paul Supporters Stage Rogue GOP Convention

Amanda Becker | Posted 07.01.2008 | Home


Amanda Becker

At the dissolved state convention in April, Ron Paul was set to win and Convention Chairman Bob Beers even shook his hand, congratulating him. When the final tallies never came and the convention was disbanded, attendees cried foul.

Yucca Casts Short Shadow On Nevada Presidential Politics

Amanda Becker | Posted 06.18.2008 | Home


Amanda Becker

The candidates talk about the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear storage facility, but people in Nevada are concerned about the economy. In fact, it's McCain's flip-flopping on Yucca that may cost him votes.

Almost Blue: The Obama-Dean Western Campaign

Dawn Teo | Posted 06.16.2008 | Home


Dawn Teo

Obama's army goes deep behind enemy lines in the West. He and Dean are determined to compete in red states as a matter of strategy, forcing McCain to spend money and resources on his own turf.

Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid Says Hillary Clinton Should Stay In The Race: "People Should Just Cool Their Jets"

Erin Medlicott | Posted 05.14.2008 | Home


Erin Medlicott

"This primary is a good thing. Democrats have developed a way to raise $100 million, 80 percent in donations under $90. We have millions more registered voters, 50,000 new Democrats in Nevada."

Clinton: Not Exactly The Great White Hope

Paul Jenkins | Posted 05.04.2008 | Politics


Paul Jenkins

Were Hillary the great rural white savior that her campaign is depicting, she would have been able to dispatch a presidential neophyte like Barack Obama.

Nevada Tops Country In '07 Foreclosures

AP | ALEX VEIGA | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


LOS ANGELES — The number of U.S. homes that slipped into some stage of foreclosure in 2007 was 79 percent higher than in the previous year, a re...

Obama: Hillary Will "Say Anything And Change Nothing"

ABC News | Jake Tapper | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


No matter what you think about which Democrat is best suited to be the nominee, or president, or who's at fault in the bitter back-and-forth that has ...

Obama Files Official Complaint Over Alleged NV Voter Suppression

TIME | Karen Tumulty | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


I won't insert any what-happens-in-Vegas jokes here, but the Barack Obama campaign is not letting go of its accusations that Hillary Clinton's campaig...

Thomas B. Edsall

Ethnic, Race, Male-Female Voting Patterns Deciding The Democratic Nomination

HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Looking at the recent male-female and white-black-Latino voting patters in Nevada, and recent survey results from South Carolina voters, it ...

Sam Stein

Giuliani Finishes In Sixth Place -- For The Fourth Time In Five Primaries

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Rudy Giuliani has always held firm that he would win the Republican nomination by focusing his energies on the late-voting, highly populated primary s...

Confusion Reigns Over Final Delegate Count In Nevada

Washington Post | Chris Cilizza | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) won today's raw vote in Nevada but senior aides to Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) believe they have narrowly won the figh...

Marc Cooper

Nevada: Barack Bets On Record Turnout

HuffingtonPost.com | Marc Cooper | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Las Vegas, Nevada - Predicting a "record turn-out" for Saturday's presidential caucuses, Barack Obama closed out his Silver State campaign last night ...

Marc Cooper

Bill Clinton: Super Surrogate

HuffingtonPost.com | Marc Cooper | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Boulder City, Nevada-- When it came to crunch time earlier this month during the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary, Hillary Clinton called out a...

SC And NV's Wealthiest And Whitest Flood Campaign Coffers

Nancy Watzman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Nancy Watzman

Adam Smith and Katie Schlieper contributed to this piece. With campaign rhetoric turning to race, and all eyes on the South Carolina and Nevada prima...

Marc Cooper

Nevada: Full Scale Union Ground War

HuffingtonPost.com | Marc Cooper | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Las Vegas, NV -- Forty-eight hours to go before Saturday's Democratic caucuses and it's strictly battle-station mode at the headquarters of the 60,000...

Marc Cooper

Video: John Edwards Disses Clinton On Social Security

HuffingtonPost.com | Marc Cooper | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


John Edwards says he's not going anywhere, except straight ahead into this Saturday's Nevada cacuses. After an appearance at the Carpenters Union in L...

Marc Cooper

John Edwards Not Planning to Quietly Fade Away

HuffingtonPost.com | Marc Cooper | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Las Vegas, NV - As he pinballs and caroms through Nevada union halls, vet centers and community meeting rooms packed with cheering, sometimes fervent ...

Sam Stein

Obama Compares Himself To Reagan, JFK...But Not Bill Clinton

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


In an interview Monday with the Reno Gazette-Journal editorial board, Sen. Barack Obama riffed on a range of political topics ranging from Katrina, th...

Bill Clinton Paints Obama As 'Establishment' Candidate

USA Today | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Bill Clinton, who carried Nevada in two general elections, urged voters Tuesday to buck labor endorsements for Sen. Barack Obama and support his wife ...

Sam Stein

Clinton Defends, Then Criticizes, BET Founder's Controversial Remark

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


At the Democratic presidential debate on Tuesday, Senator Hillary Clinton said she took BET founder Robert Johnson at his word when he said he wasn't ...

Judge Grants Kucinich Entry to Nevada Debate

San Diego Union Tribune | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


NBC News said it will appeal a judge's ruling rather than include Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich in a candidates' debate Tuesday in...

Obama In Vegas: "I'm The Jackpot"

Los Angeles Times | Maura Reynolds | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama opened a big campaign push here on Friday, rallying Democrats in an effort to recover from a narrow los...

Observant Jews Effectively Barred From Nevada Caucus

Faith In Public Life | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


We've been drawing attention this week to the fact that the media-sponsored exit polls in the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary only asked Repub...

Clinton: No Woman Is Illegal

Las Vegas Review-Journal | Molly Ball | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


People in the Las Vegas neighborhood saw all the cameras and trucks and buses and police on the streets Thursday, and they began to trickle out of the...