Mining the Latino Vote in Nevada

As workers from the Las Vegas casino strip filed into the Concorde Ballroom of the Paris Hotel, it was pretty clear what the split was. African-American workers in union t-shirts sat on one side of the aisle and mostly Latino workers filled the seats on the other side. After the shouting matches, the competing chants of “Hillary” and “Obama,” the body count, and the mathematical calculations, Hillary Clinton took the Paris at-large democratic caucus by 211 votes to 98, winning 42 of its delegates to Obama’s 19.

Similar scenes were repeated in the other at-large caucuses and throughout the Clark County area where Las Vegas is located. Although Obama took the northern state and rural areas, Clinton came out with a 6% lead and a much-needed victory. The way the precincts are distributed, however, leaves Obama with 13 delegates to Clinton’s 12 if the delegates’ commitments hold through the national convention.

What happened in the Concorde Ballroom and across the state of Nevada matters even more than the numbers. Designed to be a harbinger to predict later tendencies, Nevada offered a glimpse into what could be in store as the campaigns move on to other, more delegate-laden, states. What we saw gave cause for concern.”*

*From: americas.irc-online.org
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