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Obama was forced to fire back at the Clinton campaign for distorting his stances. This has put his campaign on the defensive, and most people get turned off by such political wrangling. There was a Spanish-language ad run by Obama supporters that disparaged Clinton and had an anti-woman inference. Unidentified persons also made calls attacking Obama and using his middle name, Hussein, over and over again. Interestingly enough, Obama won several northern Nevada counties, but did not win Clark County where Las Vegas is. Yet Obama won the “battle” at the Caesars Palace caucus by a delegate. Apparently it was evenly split with some casino workers going with Clinton despite their union’s endorsement of Obama, and steelworkers from a nearby work site also caucusing for Clinton. (The steelworkers union has endorsed Edwards, so I don’t know if this is an indication that they are now throwing their support to Clinton.) But in the end, after much reported shouting between the red t-shirted Obama supporters and the white t-shirted Clinton supporters, Obama won that casino caucus. But Clinton won the strip. In the end, because of the counties that Obama did win and a complex state formula for delegates to the Democratic convention, his campaign came away with one more delegate than Clinton.
www.pww.org Terrie Albano is the editor of People's Weekly World (www.pww.org) newspaper.
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