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Democrats gathered in the Joe Crowley Student Union Jan. 19 to caucus for their preferred candidate. Presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama swept the precincts at UNR, but lost to Sen. Hillary Clinton in the state-wide race by about 5 percent.
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At 11 a.m. Saturday, on the fourth floor of the Joe Crowley Student Union, hundreds of Democrats and soon-to-be’s filed into registration lines and tried to figure out the caucus.
By 1:15 p.m., only a few stragglers and disheveled stacks of papers told people the story of how The Joe helped make history as a center for numerous precincts in the first early Nevada caucus.
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According to the Associated Press, Mitt Romney is likely to win Nevada GOP caucus. http://www.nvgopcaucus.com/results
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Yells erupted in the Great Room of the Joe Crowley Student Union Friday night when Elizabeth Kucinich brought up the question of her husband’s viability.
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Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., addressed nearly 2,000 people at a campaign rally in the Grand Sierra Resort on Friday evening, a day before Nevada’s earliest presidential caucus in state history.
Clinton detailed many of her policy changes – from expanding health care to all Americans to a plan for withdrawing troops from Iraq within 60 days of her inauguration.
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Sen. Barack Obama, D.-Ill., fired shot after shot at fellow presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Clinton, D.-N.Y., Friday morning at the University of Nevada, Reno.
The senator, in his second stop to Reno this week, spoke to about 2,000 people in the Virginia Street Gym. It was first time a Democratic candidate has visited campus since spring.
Obama singled out Clinton, the current Nevada poll leader, on her economic stimulus plan and even her political experience in spinning questions.
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Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards made a final rallying call Thursday night trying to push supporters to the Saturday caucus.
The former North Carolina senator spoke at the Carpenter Union hall for about 15 minutes. He touched on many of his major campaign goals but in the time: universal health care, pulling America out of Iraq [...]
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Before Saturday’s caucuses, the top three Democrats and one Republican are scheduled to visit Reno.
Republican Duncan Hunter will be at the Gold Dust West casino, 444 Vine Street, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Democrat John Edwards will be at the Carpenters Hall, 1150 Terminal Way, Thursday at 6:15 p.m.
Sen. Barack Obama, D.-Ill., will be at [...]
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Sen. Hillary Clinton, D.-NY, spoke against “predatory” student loan companies and pushed for a more regulated health care system in America at Wednesday’s roundtable in Reno.
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