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Nevada eager for '08 day in sun
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| Media | Newspaper - Chicago Tribune |
| News Date | Monday, January 1, 2007 03:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | State Democrats hail new clout in choosing presidential nominee
By Lisa Anderson
Tribune national correspondent
Published December 31, 2006
PAHRUMP, Nev. -- Loyal Watkins can't remember a time when a presidential candidate made the hour-long trip from Las Vegas to stump in this fast-growing desert town of sand and subdivisions. But that may be about to change.
With the Democratic National Committee's controversial decision last summer to shoehorn Nevada's caucus between the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire's vaunted first-in-the-nation primary in January 2008, the Silver State suddenly holds new luster for presidential hopefuls.
"Every one of them will be right here," said Watkins, 56, chairman of the Nye County Central Committee of the state Democratic Party. The retired mechanic grinned at the very thought on a recent morning as he sat in the party's office here, set in a strip mall across Nevada Highway 160 from the Saddle West Casino. |
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