“I guess this is how the West was won,”----says Clinton after NV win

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Topic subject Clinton carried 7 of the9 sites Strip despite Culinary's influence/Obama camp flat wrong on count?
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2724016, Clinton carried 7 of the9 sites Strip despite Culinary's influence/Obama camp flat wrong on count?
Posted by Emit on Sat Jan-19-08 11:32 PM

"...party leaders put out a statement saying Obama’s camp was flat wrong..."

Following an intense campaign that included contested polling sites, negative ads and opposition from the Culinary Union, Hillary Clinton emerged victorious today in what proved to be a raucous — and in some cases confusing — Nevada Democratic caucus.

“I guess this is how the West was won,” the New York senator told hundreds of cheering supporters who gathered at Planet Hollywood to celebrate her win.

Noting some of the divisions in the party during the campaign, Clinton said, “we will all be united in November.”

Clinton’s win over Barack Obama in Nevada gives her much-needed momentum going into next Saturday’s South Carolina Democratic primary, where Obama was seen as having an advantage because of that state’s large African-American population.

Her victory today included a stunning showing at the nine controversial at-large sites on the Las Vegas Strip — where she won seven of those precincts.

However, during the late afternoon, the Culinary-backed Obama campaign tried to throw some cold water on Clinton’s victory.

Using arcane caucus math and a formula that figured in Obama’s results in rural Nevada, his camp insisted that Obama actually won Nevada by taking 13 of the Silver State’s 25 national delegates. However, party leaders put out a statement saying Obama’s camp was flat wrong.

“The calculations of national convention delegates being circulated are based upon an assumption that delegate preferences will remain the same between now and April 2008,” said Jill Derby, state party chairwoman. “We look forward to our county and state conventions (April 19) where we will choose the delegates for the nominee that Nevadans support.”

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http://www.lasvegassun.com/blogs/early-line/2008/jan/19/clinton /

I'm not sure what that last comment by Jill Derby means.

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