Sagebrush reporters look back on the week leading up to the Nevada caucuses.

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.

Republicans gather at McQueen High School in Reno, Nev., on Jan. 19 to help nominate a presidential candidate. Mitt Romney won the Nevada caucus by a landslide

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.

According to the Associated Press, Mitt Romney is likely to win Nevada GOP caucus. http://www.nvgopcaucus.com/results

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.

Sen. Hillary Clinton rallies in Reno a day prior to the caucus

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.

Presidential hopeful Barack Obama speaks at UNR.

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.

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 […]

Sen. Hillary Clinton speaks on the economy at a roundtable in Reno.

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