Clinton Claims Nevada Victory, While Obama Tries His Hand at Spin

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Posted by rodeodance on Sun Jan-20-08 10:15 AM

Source: CQ



Clinton Claims Nevada Victory, While Obama Tries His Hand at Spin

By Marie Horrigan, CQ Staff Sun Jan 20, 12:18 AM ET

New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton won a close but clear-cut win in Saturday's Nevada Democratic presidential caucuses. The former first lady pulled in just more than half the votes with nearly all precincts reporting and held a lead of several percentage points over her chief rival for the nomination, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama.
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Clinton secured 50.7 percent of the delegates for the next step in the process leading to the Democratic state convention on April 19 -- which is the measure by which Nevada Democrats calculated the outcome of Saturday's caucuses -- to 45.2 percent for Obama.

Given the closeness of the outcome and the fact that Democratic rules call for proportional distribution of national convention delegates, the 25 that were on the line Saturday would inevitably be split evenly between the candidates. But the Obama campaign caused a stir by spinning the outcome into a win for its candidate -- claiming he had clinched 13 of the state's national convention delegates to 12 for Clinton, based on the fact that he performed well around the state while Clinton's overall lead was built on her big edge in Clark County (Las Vegas), the state's major population center.

Both the Clinton campaign and the state Democratic Party disputed Obama's claim, noting that no national convention delegates were actually allocated on the basis of Saturday's results, only the first stage in a multi-step process.
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