Rep. Shelley Berkley announced her endorsement of Sen. Hillary Clinton this morning, praising the former first lady’s positions on Yucca Mountain, health care, veterans, the economy and just about everything else.
Up to now, Berkley has preached neutrality along with Sen. Harry Reid (although his son, Clark County Commission Chairman Rory Reid heads Clinton’s campaign office.)
Berkley […]

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By Tim Pratt, Las Vegas Sun
Nevada’s newly-created Hispanic Republican Assembly is hosting a bangin’
event tonight (Wednesday Jan. 9) at Ricardo’s Mexican restaurant, 4930 W. Flamingo Road, that is unlikely to be
repeated this political season: a “whack the donkey” pinata pre-caucus
mixer.
Sen. John Ensign and Gov. Jim Gibbons are listed as “honorary guests.” No word […]

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Ending a tortured process that unveiled infighting within its ranks, the Service Employees International Union Nevada tonight endorsed Sen. Barack Obama. Former Sen. John Edwards also was in the running, and Sen. Hillary Clinton was broadly dismissed.
More details in my story in the Sun Wednesday morning.

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Hillary Clinton and John McCain pulled off an early election comeback Tuesday night as they respectively won the Democratic and Republican nods in New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary. Sen. Clinton, who was coming off a third-place finish in Iowa, rebounded to defeat Sen. Barack Obama with 39 percent of the vote with 96 percent precincts reporting, […]

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NASHUA, H.H. — The turnout in New Hampshire is widely reported to be through the roof, with an on-the-record quote out of the Secretary of State’s office attesting to that fact.
I got a taste of it in Ward 5 in Concord at the Green Street Community Center. There was nearly 50 percent turnout with two […]

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One of Nevada’s largest unions – the Service Employees International Union – has scheduled a conference call with its executive board to discuss a potential presidential endorsement tonight at 8:30 p.m., according to several board members.
The union represents 17,500 healthcare and public sector workers in Nevada and decided last week to wait for the […]

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Despite reports that Culinary Workers Local 226 will endorse Barack Obama for president tomorrow morning (see Tim Russert’s unattributed pronouncement on the Today Show this morning), the 60,000-strong union of casino and hotel workers is still undecided.
In fact, no vote has taken place yet. That’s planned for 11 pm EST tonight when the executive committee […]

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On the ground, Clinton’s Nevada folks are trying to keep their chins up.
“We expect to compete in Nevada,” said Hilarie Grey, Clinton’s Nevada
spokeswoman. “We are full speed ahead in Nevada.”
Like Obama and Edwards, no word yet on when Clinton will visit, which would
be a major sign she plans to make a stand here.
But it doesn’t […]

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The Washington Post reports Clinton’s advisers believe their first lifeline is Nevada, where pre-Iowa and pre-New Hampshire polls showed her with a big lead. But if Obama wins in New Hampshire, he will have the inside track on an endorsement from the Culinary Workers Union, which could play a significant role in a caucus process […]

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