Clinton vs Sanders in Nevada: Urban vs rural

And unlike Iowa where she squeaked out a win and New Hampshire where Sanders crushed her, Nevada is diverse.

A new batch of Clinton emails were released last Saturday by the State Department, including 81 that have now been marked “classified”.

Another strike against the president came in the form of a cover blurb, written by the senator, for a book titled Buyers Remorse: How Obama Let the Progressives Down.

According to Patrick Caldwell of Mother Jones, the Obama campaign even began preparing for a possible challenge from Mr Sanders.

In New Hampshire, turnout was down from 2008 overall, as it was in Iowa. Former president Bill Clinton spoke to a crowd of a few hundred supporters at his wife’s Reno campaign headquarters.

“He was supposed to bring universal health care, and he just sacrificed that at the very beginning of the discussion”, said Noah Neumark, who travelled from Los Angeles to help the Sanders campaign in Nevada. Clinton, whose campaign manager Robby Mook earned his stripes in 2008 working Nevada for her, has had a strong operation here since April, and until recently had a commanding double digit lead in the state’s notoriously unreliable polls. Sanders’ surrogates, including Dick Van Dyke and Susan Sarandon, appeared in the final days before the caucus. While Democrats think by 75-22 percent that Clinton “has the integrity” to serve effectively as president, a 55-percent majority of voters overall say she doesn’t.

Some see Clinton’s frenzied pace as a sign of desperation as she contemplates losing a state that was once a given.

“Imagine a tomorrow where the barriers of racism, sexism, homophobia, all of the bigotry that still unfortunately exists is finally diminished so that people can live up to their own dreams”. Gloria Steinem suggested in a televised appearance with Bill Maher that younger women supported Sanders “because the boys are with Bernie”, while Madeleine Albright told a rally of Clinton adherents, “There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other!”

A Nevada win for Sanders would only add more fuel to the fires of his call for a political revolution. A lot of Mr. Trump’s supporters actually say that if they had to choose, Mr. Sanders would be their second choice.

Trump’s comments elicited a boisterous negative response from audience members in the hall and provided an opening for other candidates to criticize him.

“We don’t know whether candidates have this overwhelming support on either side-it’s more dependent on how numerous youth come out”, Kawashima-Ginsberg said, .

That includes the Nevada State Education Association, a powerful presence here, which endorsed Clinton and sent teachers out walking door to door to get caucusgoers interested in participating Saturday. She started reaching out to the Latino community early on.

Super Tuesday on March 1 marks the third test for the United States’ presidential hopefuls.

Somewhere during the campaign, the candidates stopped long enough to pretend they were in a legitimate debate. They alleged that the process is rigged in favor of Clinton. After an intense day of campaigning, flying across the state for events in three different cities, Sanders closed the night with confident proclamations.

Clinton’s line of attack is that Sanders is offering impractical, pie-in-the-sky ideas. The Sanders campaign’s advertisements went up on the airwaves first in Nevada, in December.

The Sanders fans in Nevada are not arriving at these views by chance, either. In New Hampshire, there was even an argument to be made that it would be almost impossible for anyone to beat a likable senator from the nearby state.

The last two Fox News polls show Clinton’s drop-off has been most striking among women (she has gone from 28 points ahead of Sanders to just 3 points up, for a shift of minus 25 points), whites (-13 points), and regular Democrats (-14 points).

At a rally in Columbia on Tuesday, Sanders was accompanied by state Representative Justin Bamberg, the lawyer for the family of Walter Scott, the black motorist shot by a cop in North Charleston past year.

That superdelegate support constitutes 19 percent of the total delegates Clinton needs to win the nomination.