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In reply to the discussion: Poll: Clinton, Sanders in a dead heat for Nevada [View all]peacebird
(14,195 posts)22. Wrong. Hillary's campaign called Nevada their "Western Firewall"
http://the360experiment.com/2016/02/world-news/2016-clinton-confronts-nevada-blowback/
CLINTON CONFRONTS NEVADA BLOWBACK
BY JHONAS / FEBRUARY 15, 2016 LATEST POSTS, WORLD NEWS NO COMMENTS
With five days to go until the Nevada caucuses once viewed as Hillary Clintons Western firewall Sen. Harry Reid and his allies are incensed at the wounded Democratic frontrunner.
The reason: The Clinton campaigns attempt to downgrade expectations there by whitewashing the diverse state.
The campaigns recent assertion that Nevada is still a state that is 80 percent white voters in other words, a state that looks alot like Bernie Sanders base is simply wrong, Reid allies claim. But more galling than that, they say, it undermines the entire rationale for the caucuses existence the state was only pushed to the front of the election calendar eight years ago because Reid lobbied for better demographic representation than the overwhelmingly white early-voting states like Iowa and New Hampshire.
CLINTON CONFRONTS NEVADA BLOWBACK
BY JHONAS / FEBRUARY 15, 2016 LATEST POSTS, WORLD NEWS NO COMMENTS
With five days to go until the Nevada caucuses once viewed as Hillary Clintons Western firewall Sen. Harry Reid and his allies are incensed at the wounded Democratic frontrunner.
The reason: The Clinton campaigns attempt to downgrade expectations there by whitewashing the diverse state.
The campaigns recent assertion that Nevada is still a state that is 80 percent white voters in other words, a state that looks alot like Bernie Sanders base is simply wrong, Reid allies claim. But more galling than that, they say, it undermines the entire rationale for the caucuses existence the state was only pushed to the front of the election calendar eight years ago because Reid lobbied for better demographic representation than the overwhelmingly white early-voting states like Iowa and New Hampshire.
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That's gonna leave a mark! It was her "Western Firewall" a couple weeks ago... LOL!
peacebird
Feb 2016
#1
Sorry, Nevada was NEVER part of the so-called firewall. That is based on SC and Super Tuesday
still_one
Feb 2016
#2
Nevada is a tie. Want to see what the polls say on Super Tuesday. One guess, they are not tied
still_one
Feb 2016
#5
I seem to remember Iowa being something like a 90+% chance of a Hillary win just a few weeks before
Kentonio
Feb 2016
#7
I don't think so. HRC's campaign has always taunted us with her incredible polling numbers.
delrem
Feb 2016
#9
As of 4:30 p.m. yesterday afternoon, Nate Silver predicted a 51-49 win for Sanders. Let's wait
secondwind
Feb 2016
#11
Nate will predict whatever his paymaster tells him to predict, right up 'till the last moment.
delrem
Feb 2016
#19
A while back, I did read and hear a a lot about both South Carolina and Nevada.
merrily
Feb 2016
#26
As people understand that a positive future is possible if Hillary loses to Sanders,
delrem
Feb 2016
#20