Poll raises questions over Nevada Latino votes

Elsewhere, Hillary Clinton beat Bernie Sanders for a crucial win in Nevada’s Democratic caucuses. Hillary Clinton’s group is rebutting the claims that rival Senator Bernie Sanders won Nevado’s Latino vote by 8 percentage points.

Sanders said her husband’s campaign will pop in and out of the state during the week, with some focus being given to the states in the March 1 Super Tuesday votes.

After a devastating, double-digit loss to Sanders in New Hampshire, Clinton prevailed in Nevada with the backing of women, union workers, minorities, moderates and voters who are certain she will have a better shot at winning in November, according to entrance polls. He is also disputing the notion that Nevada represented a significant victory for the Clinton campaign.

Clinton’s support among black voters could pay dividends because of the way Democrats award high-performing congressional districts with a greater share of delegates. That could help extend the Democratic race beyond the cluster of early March contests and into April and May, when a string of contests in whiter and more liberal states could help him.

“What I’ve said over and over again, is we will do well when young people when working class people come out, we do not do well when voter turnout is not large”, Sanders said. “Thank you, South Carolina”, said Rubio.

The Latino Decisions data shows that Clinton won the majority of the 40 precincts in Nevada that have more than 50 percent Latino registrants and in precincts 4560 and 4559, both in the crucial Clark County and over 80 percent Latino, Clinton won seven and twelve delegates to Sanders’ one and four.

Her support among African Americans, who make up more than half of the Democratic electorate there, give her what appears in polls to be an insurmountable advantage. And she won them.

“If Ronald Reagan can smash the American Dream from right field, then Bernie can build it back up from left field”, said Dale Quale, a 60-year-old unemployed former slot machine technician who estimated that he had made 800 phones calls for the Vermont senator before the caucus.

Mrs. Clinton herself also disputed the numbers.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton meets an attendee Friday, Jan. 22, 2016, at a NARAL Pro-Choice dinner in Concord, N.H.

Clyburn, the No. 3 ranked Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives and the only Democrat in Congress from SC, stayed neutral in the bitter 2008 race between Clinton and Barack Obama. Those three, Ronald Reagan in 1980, George H.W. Bush in 1988 and 1992, and John McCain in 2008, went on to win the nomination. “But today, we sent a message that will stun the political and financial establishment of this country: our campaign can win anywhere”.

In a tweet late Saturday night, Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill brushed off the supposed Sanders victory among Hispanics as, using somewhat earthier terms, bovine excrement.