*Update Ron Paul takes second in the Silver State. Nice work from the official campaign and NV grassroots.*The Nevada caucus takes place today, with no shortage of controversy for either party. The Democrats have clashed over rule changes allowing voting in casinos. The state teachers union had sued claiming that it gave an unfair advantage to the 200,000+ casino workers over those who had to work at night. Hillary Clinton has many backers in the union, and while she had no official connection to the lawsuit, she is obviously hurt by the ruling to allow casino voting. The Culinary Workers Union has backed Obama, so we will see how this all shakes out today.
On the Republican side, only Romney and Paul have really campaigned here, leading to some predictions of Paul possibly winning or coming in second. The polls don't really reflect that, however, so these stories could simply be spin by other campaigns or the media. Also the Paul campaign has issued a press release blasting the state GOP for making several changes of caucus locations and rules in the last few days. They asked for the caucus to be postponed, to which caucus spokesman Steve Wark, a maxed out Giuliani supporter replied "We would hope that the Paul campaign would go act like adults.."
Obviously this is a completely fair and unbiased individual, with no stake in the process whatsoever. The caucus locations have been changed 3 times in the last ten days, which one would think might merit some questions about the process. It will be interesting to see how Giuliani does in Nevada, he certainly has some friends on the ground there.
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