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Nevada builds its presidential caucus, hopes they will come
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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem Dec 13, 2006 11:33am |
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| News Date | Wednesday, December 13, 2006 05:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By Aaron Blake
Three months ago, with his state ascending to second place in the Democratic presidential nominating process, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) sent a letter to the potential 2008 hopefuls urging them to “campaign in Nevada vigorously.”
It’s still early, but about the only candidate who could be accused of vigor in Nevada is Tom Vilsack, the long-shot Iowa governor who has visited the state four times, including a formal jaunt last week. The state has yet to play host to Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) or Barack Obama (D-Ill.), the presumptive frontrunners for the nomination, and has received a smattering of the other potential candidates.
As Nevada irons out the details of its newfound early caucus and hopes for the best, the major candidates have largely continued to focus on the old mainstay early contests in Iowa and New Hampshire. State Democrats expect to start narrowing the gap after New Year’s.
Experts agree that the caucus’s status will increase when the major candidates take it seriously and start spending real time there. For now, the New Hampshire primary, downgraded from second- to third-in-the-nation status by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) this year, appears to be maintaining its top-two lure. |
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