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Saturday, January 19, 2008

(Update: Hillary Wins) Follow Nevada Dem Caucus Results

2:42 PM: Official site back up showing with about 86% reporting:
Senator Hillary Clinton: 50.76%   
Senator Barack Obama: 45.12%   
Senator John Edwards: 3.8%   
Uncommitted: 0.28%   
Congressman Dennis Kucinich: 0.04%   
Senator Mike Gravel: 0%
Note: These are percentages of delegates to the county convention, not individual votes.

According to the WaPo's Chris Cillizza: "Despite the support of the Culinary Workers [for Obama], it was Clinton who dominated the nine Strip casinos -- winning Bellagio and Paris among others. Obama won only Caesars. Turnout on the Strip was far lower than predicted in early estimates."

2:14 PM: CNN projects Hillary Clinton as winner with 59% reporting:

2,981
50%
0
59%
reporting
2,648
45%
0
269
5%
0
Uncommitted
13
0%
0
3
0%
0
0
0%
0

MSNBC also calls Clinton the winner, showing 50% of results in.
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I wonder which campaign is behind this robocalling against Obama? Comment on DailyKos: Robocall trashes "Barack Hussein Obama"

The Obama campaign has released a recording (mp3) it says came from a Nevadan's answering machine of an anonymous robocall that criticizes Obama for taking money from special interests while repeating, four times, his rarely used middle name: "Hussein."

"I'm calling with some important information about Barack Hussein Obama," the call begins, before saying that  "Barack Hussein Obama says he doesn't take money from Washington lobbyists or special interest groups but the record is clear that he does."

After mentioning his full name once more, the call concludes:

"You just can't take a chance on Barack Hussein Obama."

Listen to the recording of it on Obama website
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Earlier posting:

I can't get into the official results page of today's Nevada Dem Caucus because the site reportedly crashed from heavy traffic, but CNN has frequently updated results here. The MSNBC version is here.

CNN screen capture at 2:10 PM:

2,681
52%
0
51%
reporting
2,312
44%
0
196
4%
0
Uncommitted
10
0%
0
3
0%
0
0
0%
0

According to today's entrance poll it sure looks good for Hillary Clinton, but nobody really knows how predictive such polling will be in a state that's never had a caucus before. Hard to know how voters will act within the rather odd and public framework of an Iowa-like caucus (rather than the state's normal primary process). At any rate, Hillary wins for initial choice in almost every entrance poll category except voters under age 44, Washoe County, Independents and African-Americans, where Obama trumps her.

January 19, 2008 at 01:35 PM in 2008 Presidential Primary | Permalink

Comments

I guess racist, dirty campaigning wins the day for Hillary.

Posted by: JJ | Jan 19, 2008 3:03:35 PM

Her machine has much in common with the Rove-Bush machine. Bad news.

Posted by: Obama Fan | Jan 20, 2008 1:00:41 PM

I find some of the Obama bloggers worse than the right-wing of the Republican party or the swift boaters. Hillary Clinton is a good decent person who has achieved much in her life. At a time when women were not accepted in Ivy League schools she went to Yale. Why are some of you saying such venomous things about her? I think you really have it wrong if you start demonizing Hillary. She is a good fine person. You are entitled to support Obama, of course - but there is no need to denigrate a very fine person.

Posted by: Jerilyn Rubin | Feb 14, 2008 3:30:51 PM

The facts are the facts. She may be a "nice" person and very smart, but her tactics during this campaign have been run by Mark Penn, notorious for working to break unions and other bad stuff. Winning is all for the Clintons, no matter what they have to do. People are tired of it.

Posted by: facts are facts | Feb 14, 2008 4:26:41 PM

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