2008 Caucus Coverage
| Jan. 17, 2008
Presidential hopeful John Edwards stumps at the Grand Sierra Resort.
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Candidates visit Reno Tuesday
| Jan. 17, 2008
Barack Obama visits Reno the Monday before the caucuses
| Jan. 16, 2008
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…
| Jan. 16, 2008
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.
| Jan. 16, 2008
Presidential hopeful John Edwards, the “underdog” in the race for the Democratic nomination, told a crowd of about 700 people at the Grand Sierra Resort Wednesday to caucus for him on Saturday. In a speech mainly about the economy, the former North Carolina senator said he would put a cap on greenhouse gas emissions and invest in renewable energy, expand federal aid for college students and raise the minimum wage to $9.50 by 2012.
He said he would mandate universal health care, ban insurance companies from excluding “pre-existing conditions” and create a patient’s bill of rights.
| Jan. 14, 2008
With just five days left until the Nevada caucus, Presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., rallied a crowd of more than 1,000 people at Reno Events Center Monday.
Obama’s campaign theme of “change” was evident throughout the event. A sign behind the candidate read: “Change we can believe in.”
The senator told the crowd that he would create universal health care coverage, push for energy independence and rescind the Bush Administration’s No Child Left Behind act among many other policy changes.
| Jan. 14, 2008
Presidential hopeful Barack Obama visits Reno
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Presidential candidate Ron Paul walked into Peg’s Glorified Ham and Eggs in downtown Reno Monday to applause from supporters and the surprise of Trevor Weaver.
Weaver, who graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno in December, jumped up from his meal when the 72-year-old Republican wanted to shake his hand.
| Jan. 13, 2008
Former President Clinton stumps for his wife Hillary Clinton at Truckee Meadows Community College Sunday.
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Former President Clinton stumped for his wife Hillary Clinton at Truckee Meadows Community College Sunday.
About 500 people attended the rally where Clinton made the case for his wife to be elected president saying she would take the country on a “U-turn” from the policies of the Bush administration.
| Dec. 11, 2007
Expect the 11 days between New Hampshire’s Jan. 8 primary and Nevada’s Jan. 19 caucus to make the difference in Nevada’s political climate, political experts said.
Iowa’s Jan. 3 caucus and New Hampshire will no longer distract presidential candidates, leaving Nevada and South Carolina, which has a Jan. 19 Republican primary, to split the limelight, they said.
“This could potentially be a huge January for Nevada,” said Kenneth Fernandez, a political science professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
| Dec. 11, 2007
Barack Obama’s 200 versus Hillary Clinton’s 26.
Ron Paul’s 62 versus Rudy Giuliani’s zero.
These numbers, representing members of official University of Nevada, Reno student clubs, fall out of line with national polls, where Clinton is ahead of Obama by nearly 20 percent and Giuliani is ahead of Mike Huckabee by about 8 percent.
Club organizers said candidate diversity is also a reason students are attracted to the nonleading candidates.
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