Nevada: Nevada Caucus

Mon, 06/23/2008 - 22:21

Reid: Dems united behind Obama

LAS VEGAS - State Democratic leaders came together in Las Vegas Monday to display their unity behind Ill. Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign.

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Mon, 06/23/2008 - 22:01

Horsford: Dems united behind Obama

By Joseph K. Cooper

LAS VEGAS - State Democratic leaders came together in Las Vegas Monday to display their unity behind Ill. Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign.

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Mon, 04/14/2008 - 11:16

PolitickerNV Profile: Kirsten Searer

By Joseph K. Cooper

LAS VEGAS-If you've been paying any attention to Nevada politics in the last year or so, you've certainly read a lucid quote by one-time Nevada Democratic communications director, now deputy executive director Kirsten Searer. Searer, 28, has been the voice of the party through the 2006 election and now the record-breaking 2008 caucuses, a job she couldn't have imagined holding a decade ago.

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Sun, 04/13/2008 - 00:02

Clark County Democrats on re-vote: Obama supporter

By Joseph K. Cooper

Tom Vanderpool, 59, of Las Vegas, discusses the Apr. 12 Clark County Democratic Convention re-vote and his hopes for his candidate-of-choice.

Note: The cellphone ringing near the end of this video did not belong to this reporter.

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Sat, 04/12/2008 - 23:40

Clark County Democrats on re-vote: Clinton supporter

By Joseph K. Cooper

Irene Houghland, 56, of Las Vegas, discusses the April. 12 Clark County Democratic Convention re-vote and her hopes for her candidate-of-choice.

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Wed, 04/09/2008 - 21:19

Presidential campaigns setting the stage for Apr. 12 Clark County re-vote

By Joseph K. Cooper

LAS VEGAS-Saturday, elected delegates from the Clark County Democrats' Jan. 19 precinct caucuses will descend on the Thomas and Mack Center at UNLV to cast make-up votes from their unsuccessful Feb. 23 convention. As the date approaches, both remaining Democratic presidential campaigns are working feverishly to turn out their delegates and hopefully improve on their positions heading into the state convention May 17-18.

Since the new county voting plan was announced Mar. 5, the campaigns of both N.Y. Sen. Hillary Clinton and Ill.

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Tue, 04/08/2008 - 20:27

Caucus party-switchers may have to re-register party ID… again

By Joseph K. Cooper

LAS VEGAS—It is a story that has been rumored about for months. Some Nevada Republicans, taking advantage of state Democratic rules that allowed them to register as Democrats the day of the Jan. 19 caucus, may have participated in their own party’s caucus in the early morning, switched parties to take part in the Democratic caucuses afterward, only to re-register again as Republicans shortly thereafter.

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Wed, 03/05/2008 - 19:02

Clark County Dems announce do-over plan

By Joseph K. Cooper

Las Vegas- Democratic Party leaders hosted a press conference this afternoon at the Thomas and Mack Center on the campus of UNLV to outline their new plan to elect Clark County delegates for their party’s state convention May 17-18. Chairman John Hunt kicked off the press conference with a solemn mea culpa for the chaos Clark County Democrats experienced at the aborted Feb. 23 county convention.

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Sun, 02/24/2008 - 03:18