Sen. Hillary Clinton emerged as the popular vote winner of the Nevada Democratic presidential nominating competition. “I guess this is how the West was won,” she told cheering supporters Saturday.
According to the Washington Post, the chairwoman of the Nevada Democratic Party insists that the contention that Sen. Barack Obama won more delegates in today’s caucus is incorrect.
“The calculations of national convention delegates being circulated are based upon an assumption that delegate preferences will remain the same between now and April 2008,” said Jill Derby, the chairwoman of the state party. “We look forward to our county and state conventions where we will choose the delegates for the nominee that Nevadans support.”
Nevada was the first Democratic western state caucus and marked Clinton’s second ‘legitimate’ victory. Although, technically, she won the Michigan Democratic primary earlier this week, the national party stripped the state of its delegates because it held its contest too early in the election season.
Hillary’s campaign hopes to carry this triumphant momentum through next week when the battle for the Democratic South Carolina primary takes place.
Speaking of which, the Republicans held their South Carolina primary Saturday. Mike Huckabee conceded to John McCain and stressed that the GOP presidential race “is not an event, it is a process — and the process is far, far from over.” South Carolina is key because since 1980, no Republican candidate has managed to make it to the White House without winning the state’s primary. In Nevada, though, Mitt Romney, with his second consecutive win, is recovering quite nicely after earlier defeats in New Hampshire and Iowa.
According to a statement released from the Romney campaign, Nevada Republicans had cast their votes for change.
“With a career spent turning around businesses, creating jobs and imposing fiscal discipline, I am ready to get my hands on Washington and turn it inside out,” it said.
Stay tuned for the South Carolina Recap for the Democrats following the Democratic primary January 26. I can’t wait to see how this is going to play out: the state is comprised of approximately 50 percent black voters and while Obama is polling well with them, Clinton is running strong with black females. Additionally, South Carolina was the only state John Edwards won in 2004, and he’s currently trailing in the polls.
I could care less about Hillary wining Navada because she will not get my vote on 2/5 or in November if she makes it that far. She would have been my next pick after Obama but she blew that weeks ago. I will vote for Mike Huckabee before her, and if dosn’t get the rep nod then I’ll go vote and write in my pastors name lol.
Obama 08
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Lenear
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Are there any Latinos on this site? If so, I have a question. I’ve read numerous articles stating that Obama lost the Latino vote in Nevada because the lower income and older Latino generation do not like Blacks. Do you think some Latinos won’t vote for Obama simply because he is black?
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I am from CA (born and raised) and every since I could remember there has been a problem between African Americans and Mexicans in this state. Most of my mexican friends date African American men and it has caused major family problems because most of the older lation generation believe all the stereotypes of African Americans especially the men. One of my friends said that, a lot of the older folks think that all black people are on drugs, lazy, violent and the men never take care of their kids. She also said that most of the older Spanish generation only listens to Spanish radio , and watch Spanish televison so when they watch black people on televison most of the time the images are negative, so they believe that’s how we really are.
It goes both ways thought, the African Americans aren’t exactly kind to the Mexicans here either. But I will say it has nothing to do with the way they live their lives or their culture it is more based on the better treatment they receive. This state caters to the Spanish and most of them are here illegal. Don’t let that whole Boarder drama fool you. There are more Black men on death row here than Mexicans, you can’t even get a decent job in this state if you don’t speak Spanish, they buy CA drivers license with no problem and Black person couldn’t walk into no DMV here and buy a license and when they could they got charged more.
I could go on and on but I’ll stop here lol
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excuse me but I dont appreciate your insults.
Especially when its obvious you have NO Idea whats going on.
1-taking money from white supremacists means nothing, 2 the article brought up wasnt written by him and it was debunked in 94, so why was it brought up again, convieniantly a day before New hampshire.
Ron paul worked in inner city houston for 3 dollars an hour delivering babies.
But none of that matters
Whats obama going to do about foreigners buying up all the equity in the US, whats he going to do about corporate manage trade, whats he going to do about inflationary spending.
It says on obamas site he wants to scale wages to inflation. Dumbest Idea ive ever heard, that will cause endless rollercoaster of stagflation and hyper inflation and eventually market collapse.
Hillary and obama are MANDATING healthcare. maybe some of yall dont ovastan what that means. Let me spell it out for the dumb deaf and blind.
YOU WILL BE REQUIRE BY LAW TO HAVE HEALTH INSURANCE OR FACE PENALTIES. THEY WILL NOT BRING COSTS DOWN OR ALLOW HEALTH FREEDOM. IF YOU TAKE HERBS, OR GET ACUPUNCTURE OR GO TO A CHIROPRACTOR. THOSE THINGS WILL BE OUTLAWED UNDER FDA CODE X.
Wake up you got damn sheep
Did you guys see the debate in South Carolina tonight? If not, you really missed out on a good debate! Hillary Clinton is the bomb, she stood her grounds and had Obama studdering and looking like an amateur. Of course, Obama will win the majority in S.C. based solely because he’s black! No matter how bad Obama sucked ass tonight, gave faulty speeches, he will still win S.C. (just watch)! Did you see the faces in the audience? My black people were not trying to hear anything Hillary was saying LMAO! But on the inside, they knew she showed up and showed out all over Obama’s ass! I hope they seriously replay this debate, because it’s one i think WE ALL should see again!
I really stand FIRM in my decision to vote for Hillary in ’08! She really is a powerful political woman!
This is to ALL MY PEOPLE….. Please watch these debates and vote for who actually belongs in office!!!
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