Hillary Wins Nevada Caucuses

By Jeralyn, Section Elections 2016
Posted on Sat Feb 20, 2016 at 07:59:13 PM EST
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Hillary Clinton bested Bernie Sanders today in the Nevada Democratic caucuses. As of now,
Hillary has 52.5% to Bernies 47.4% with 86% of the vote in. The LA Times reports Bernie won the northern Nevada counties that Obama took in 2008, while the Washington Post says her support among African-Americans was very strong, and Bernie did pretty well among Latinos.

But according to preliminary entrance polls reported by CNN, she won among black Democrats by a whopping 76 percent to 22 percent. African Americans made up 13 percent of the electorate, according to the entrance poll, while 19 percent were Hispanic and 59 percent were white. Sanders held an eight-point edge among Hispanic voters, who accounted for roughly 1 in 5 caucus-goers, and the two candidates split white voters about evenly.

The LA Times also says Hillary won the casino vote. The Caesar's precinct chair says the vote was 190 for Hillary and 81 for Sanders. More on this from the Wall St. Journal. Here's a photo of Bill in the Caesar's ballroom at caucus time: [More...]

Update: The LA Times says 75% of Nevadans live in Clark County (Las Vegas. Hillary won Clark County.)

Entrance polling:

Clinton was backed by a majority of women, college-educated voters, those with annual incomes over $100,000, moderates, voters aged 45 and older and non-white voters. Sanders did best with men, voters under 45 and those less affluent and educated.

Eva Longoria and America Ferrera were in Las Vegas yesterday stumping with Hillary and Bill.

Interesting that Joe Trippi, Howard Kurtz and Juan Williams are now Fox News contributors. They are on Hannity's show now. Hannity is saying that Trump's kids soften his image. Usually I would agree with that, but I did a double take on Ivanka tonight. She is very pretty, but tonight, her makeup was so garish I thought it was a sendup of a Barbie doll. She looks awful wearing deep red lipstick -- she needs to go back to nudes and pinks. If you do a google search of her images, she almost always wears a neutral lip color. What happened? She stood out like a fire engine on that stage tonight.

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They say (5.00 / 1) (#2)
by CaptHowdy on Sat Feb 20, 2016 at 08:17:01 PM EST

She has Harry to thank for that casino vote.

He's the only one ... (none / 0) (#3)
by Robot Porter on Sat Feb 20, 2016 at 08:21:27 PM EST

who understands the voters in that crazy state.

So I believe it.


: Reid has (5.00 / 1) (#27)
by BackFromOhio on Sun Feb 21, 2016 at 10:23:58 AM EST

not been a Hilary supporter - in 2008, and doubtfully now, as he remained "neutral." I think his influence on the casino vote is media's way of saying she is weak and cannot take credit for her own win.

Hillary is the only ... (5.00 / 1) (#19)
by Robot Porter on Sat Feb 20, 2016 at 11:36:18 PM EST

person in this race who knows how to give a primary victory speech.

It's not supposed to be a cohesive speech that people listen to in total.

You thank supporters and give TV and radio a couple of good bytes that they can clip.

Reince Priebus (5.00 / 1) (#22)
by Ga6thDem on Sun Feb 21, 2016 at 06:13:35 AM EST

tweeting about how Hillary was still "struggling". LOL. Now we know where the media gets their talking points from. And a reality show star from NYC just completely wiped out everybody in SC and I laughed and laughed and laughed at Priebus.

Hookers (5.00 / 1) (#23)
by Mr Natural on Sun Feb 21, 2016 at 08:24:44 AM EST

4 Hillary.

Years ago, on an ABC (5.00 / 3) (#34)
by fishcamp on Sun Feb 21, 2016 at 12:10:30 PM EST

American Sportsman desert bighorn sheep relocation film, we captured the sheep near the shore of Lake Mead, outside of Las Vegas. After trucking them up to Carson City to release them, we found ourselves a few hundred feet from the Bunny Ranch. The girls were out waving at us while the sheep ran off at about fifty miles per hour. Yes I got the shot, but some of the cameramen were looking at the girls when the wrangler opened the truck doors. Tom Harmon was the star guest with us. That show was the funniest one I ever worked.


: That's a great story (none / 0) (#39)
by jimakaPPJ on Sun Feb 21, 2016 at 01:05:35 PM EST

And I bet you, like I, only read Playboy for the articles.
;-)

The press were told ... (none / 0) (#1)
by Robot Porter on Sat Feb 20, 2016 at 08:09:50 PM EST

she wouldn't speak to her supporters tonight. Bill would. She was flying onto Texas.

Wonder if she actually thought she was going to lose? Or was she playing mind games with the Sanders team? Or the press?

Of course, when she won, she stayed and gave a victory speech.

Good one too.

She's (5.00 / 1) (#4)
by Ga6thDem on Sat Feb 20, 2016 at 08:40:21 PM EST

always doing that kind of stuff to throw Sanders off. When she met with ministers in Philadelphia Bernie was screaming about her having a fundraiser with rich donors.


Bill also really got ... (none / 0) (#5)
by Robot Porter on Sat Feb 20, 2016 at 08:41:53 PM EST

in Bernie's head when he compared Sander's movement to the Tea Party.


Which is really interesting (5.00 / 2) (#6)
by CaptHowdy on Sat Feb 20, 2016 at 08:44:52 PM EST

I remember comments here in these threads for years to the effect of "what we need is a left version of the tea party"

Be careful what you wish for.

The comparison seem pretty obvious to me and I'm not sure why they find it insulting.


Because Bernie knows his ... (none / 0) (#7)
by Robot Porter on Sat Feb 20, 2016 at 08:51:34 PM EST

history.

People viewed as extremists are almost never nominated for president.


and if nominated they (5.00 / 2) (#11)
by Jeralyn on Sat Feb 20, 2016 at 09:10:50 PM EST

won't win. I just wrote in a post about Jeb dropping out that this country is not about to elect an evangelical, radical right candidate as President. Which is why I doubt that Rubio or Cruz have no chance of even getting the nomination.

I think Sanders is responsible for his image as an extremist. In trying to present himself as more left than other Democrats, the label was inevitable.

He might be better off if he accepted that he was just politics as usual.


: The repainted Rubio (5.00 / 1) (#45)
by christinep on Sun Feb 21, 2016 at 04:56:05 PM EST

My biggest concern about the erstwhile pretzel, Rubio, is that the general election audience may not be "treated" to the real right-winger that is Rubio. Should he & his new BFF <The Republican Establishment> scratch through to the bruised nomination, I suspect the program is to re-introduce him as the carrier-of-the-new-generation-torch. Once again, we will see pretty boy with pretty family who talks earnestly of a rejuvenated America la la la. If the Repub programmers could repaint him as the face of the future, he could be a good media competitor during the relatively short general election run. Of course, there are all the recordings of his real Tea Party days of not so long ago.

It actually (none / 0) (#9)
by Ga6thDem on Sat Feb 20, 2016 at 08:55:15 PM EST

seemed to pretty obvious to me too. And there is a lot of things that are obviously the same. It's basically IMO white straight males who feel threatened or left behind. Tea partiers are threatened by the browning of America. Bernie supporters seem to be threatened to some extent by women and by Wall Street.

You know, I don't know if it is the same where you are but the whole Wall Street stuff pretty much falls on deaf ears here because we have people that are worried about jobs, hospitals closing etc.


: I think people forget that the Bush economy (5.00 / 1) (#18)
by ruffian on Sat Feb 20, 2016 at 11:10:07 PM EST

Was in the toilet long before the collapse. Or if they are young maybe they think the troubles started in 2008. Job losses and a health care system that was bankrupting people were huge contributors to people not being able to pay the mortgages that the Wall Street speculation had piped into the system. all aspects of the economy need to be addressed.

: Why shouldn't people feel threatened (none / 0) (#14)
by jondee on Sat Feb 20, 2016 at 09:46:31 PM EST

by Wall Street? The entire economy went in the sh*tter a few years back to a large extent because of Wall Street.
To say that people who don't Clinton support are anti-woman is about as legitimate as saying the people who didn't support Obama were racists and that the people who didn't support Bush were against God and Country.

Bill getting into someone else's head (none / 0) (#24)
by jondee on Sun Feb 21, 2016 at 10:03:25 AM EST

for once. If that isn't an instance of significant role-reversal, I don't know what is.

All hysteria aside and all policy specifics considered, in reality, Bernie is about as much "like" the Tea Party as Hillary is like Rubio, Bibi Netanyahu, and her loathsome mentor Napalm Henry.


I think I see the problem (5.00 / 1) (#25)
by CaptHowdy on Sun Feb 21, 2016 at 10:21:50 AM EST

I believe the point was not that Bernie is like the tea party but that Bernies supporters are like the tea party.

The tea Perry is the right of the right. They are largely the left of the left. Why is that confusing.


The left of the left I don't even buy (none / 0) (#30)
by jondee on Sun Feb 21, 2016 at 10:32:02 AM EST

Other than the fact that Sanders openly calls himself a socialist, most of his specific policy positions aren't that different from those advocated by a thirties FDR democrat.

Bernies are a dime a dozen in Europe.

I guess he's the left of the left here in the U.S; where we had it beaten into our heads in the nineties that the Clintons were dangerous radicals..


Well, yeah (5.00 / 1) (#31)
by CaptHowdy on Sun Feb 21, 2016 at 10:34:21 AM EST

We are, you know, kind of IN the US.


Also.. (none / 0) (#32)
by jondee on Sun Feb 21, 2016 at 10:43:03 AM EST

his supporters are like the Tea Party..

You mean, generally unreflective, un-self critical, and not privileged with the benefits of a significant amount formal education? (not to name call or anything)

That comparison don't hold no f*ckin' water neither.

They are like the TP (5.00 / 2) (#48)
by smott on Mon Feb 22, 2016 at 06:16:18 AM EST

In their insistence on purity.
That's a deep similarity.


: Bingo (none / 0) (#49)
by FlJoe on Mon Feb 22, 2016 at 09:20:59 AM EST

to most of them anybody one inch to the right of Bernie is a complete corporate sellout, period.

Different view (none / 0) (#26)
by BackFromOhio on Sun Feb 21, 2016 at 10:22:15 AM EST

I wonder if the Clinton campaign needs to take shots at Sanders like this; all indications are that Hilary will win in SC and on Super Tuesday very comfortably. Her campaign is reacting as though the race is close. And, by taking shots like these, her campaign may be making it difficult for Sanders supporters to get behind her should she win the nomination. I'd hate to see the rift between Sanders & Clinton supporters get as ugly as the 2008 rift.


: When this was said (5.00 / 3) (#29)
by CaptHowdy on Sun Feb 21, 2016 at 10:26:11 AM EST

NV was in doubt. And a loss there would have resulted in Hillary being buried in obits.
This is a new day. I would ex