In The News: Department of Political Science
Hillary Clinton won the Nevada Democratic caucuses on Saturday. She did so thanks largely to her strength in Clark County — the home of Las Vegas, and the most heavily Latino part of the state.
In the first two presidential contests – Iowa and New Hampshire – there wasn’t much talk about young voters. But now that the focus of the Democratic presidential race has shifted to Nevada, the campaigns of Democratic hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have started scouring college campuses and hip neighborhoods around the Silver State in order to win over the this emerging segment of the population.
Hillary Clinton’s and Donald Trump’s victories Saturday in Nevada and South Carolina raise two big questions for the next stops in the primary season.
At Bernie Sanders’s Westside Las Vegas office Saturday, Connor Paolo, famous for playing Serena van der Woodsen’s younger brother in “Gossip Girl,” will work a phone bank for the Vermont Senator.
A Las Vegas lawyer has gathered more than $100,000 to fund his bid for a seat on the Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education, building an impressive donor base for the low-key contest.
If you want to know why Saturday's Nevada caucus has suddenly, in its final weeks, turned from a presumed landslide for Hillary Clinton into a total toss-up, ask Emily Sandoval and Maggie Salas-Crespo.
In a storefront on this city’s heavily Latino east side, the civil rights leader Dolores Huerta rallied a dozen volunteers for Hillary Clinton on Wednesday night, relating, in Spanish, a Mexican saying about people who go near a cactus only when it is bearing fruit.
Iowa and New Hampshire voters look forward to the presidential nominating process with high expectations of contact with candidates and a long tradition of vetting them. And then comes … Nevada.
The first two elections in the primary cycle are complete, yet the lid remains open on one controversial topic that surfaces every primary season: the apparent “whiteness” of Iowa and New Hampshire. The matter usually is boiled down to a single question: How could two mostly rural states with majority-white populations fairly represent the national electorate?
On today's show - "The fact that the Latino population here and the US born Latino population is so overwhelmingly young, it opens a pathway for Sanders."
Sam’s Town casino is a pioneer-themed resort on the working-class east side of Las Vegas famous for its laserlight waterfall show, budget-friendly gambling, a bowling alley popular with locals, and the fact that Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio’s father, Mario Rubio, served drinks here in the early 1980s.
One of the most prominent donors in Republican politics is in an unusual position: undecided.