NBC News: CLINTON TAKES NEVADA

[DeepModem Mom]

Clinton, Romney win in Nevada



WASHINGTON - NBC News declared Hillary Clinton as the projected winner in Nevada presidential caucuses on Saturday. Clinton and Barack Obama vied heavily in a race marred by last-minute claims of dirty politics....

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Obama won the backing of the influential Culinary Workers Union. That, in turn, led to an unsuccessful lawsuit by some of Clinton's supporters who hoped to ban specially arranged caucuses along the Las Vegas Strip that could draw thousands of unionized casino and hotel workers. Both campaigned to the last moment among casino and hotel workers. Edwards spoke to a union audience in Missouri, then was heading to South Carolina, where Democrats hold their own primary in one week.

Obama, hoping to become the first black president, spent nearly $1 million in television commercials. Clinton, campaigning to become the country's first woman chief executive, ran nearly $700,000 worth of commercials, and a union group backed the New York senator with nearly $100,000 on an independent ad campaign.

Former President Bill Clinton was a constant presence, as well, in a state he carried twice on his own in 1992 and 1996....


(Rick Wilking/Reuters)
US Democratic presidential candidate Senator Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., greets workers at the Mandalay Bay hotel and casino in Las Vegas on Saturday.

[Thoth11]

1. Clinton won Popular vote but Obama got more Delegates.

When looking at the numbers it shows the Clinton won the popular vote but Obama received more delegates-13 to Clinton's 12. Unless of course you throw in the 'declared Super Delegates', then according to CNN both candidates tied with 14. So who really won? Can either candidate really claim victory? Or am I missing something here?