Posted on 01/21/2008 12:15:06 PM PST by tcrlaf
US Senator Barack Obama's presidential campaign on Sunday said that it had received reports of voting irregularities in Nevada's nominating caucuses, which were won by rival Hillary Clinton.
Spokesmen for Obama's campaign told reporters that a Clinton party handout urged registration lines for the caucuses Saturday to close at 11:30 am, whereas state party rules said anyone in line until 12:00 pm was to be allowed to participate.
"Despite clear rules and timelines laid out by the Nevada Democratic Party that caucus doors should remain open and voter registration should continue until noon, the Clinton campaign encouraged their operatives to close the caucus doors at 11:30 am, a half hour before that deadline," said spokesman Bill Burton.
"This caused confusion and led to people leaving the caucuses before having the chance to participate."
Clinton won the state's nominating contest with 51 percent of the vote, while Obama received 45 percent. The victory increased the former first lady's lead over Obama, after she also won the New Hampshire primary on January 8.
Obama won the Democrats' first nominating caucuses in Iowa at the beginning of the month. His campaign called for a full review of the Nevada vote but insisted it was not calling into question the results.
"We found an unusually high number of reports that the Clinton campaign was insisting that 11:30 was the deadline," said general counsel Bob Bauer, adding that at least 300 complaints had come in.
"We are going to notify the Nevada Democratic party that we want a full review of this, and make sure we have in front of us a full picture to make sure this behavior is highlighted and discouraged in the future."
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****************************************************** "Clinton won the state's nominating contest with 51 percent of the vote, while Obama received 45 percent. The victory increased the former first lady's lead over Obama, after she also won the New Hampshire primary on January 8." ******************************************************* This is another example of the media's continued pimping for HILLARY!. Obama won more DELEGATES than Clinton did!
Everyone knows it's the Republicans who do this sort of stuff! The MSM tells us so! /sarc
So you're finally catching on? Tell me, Sir, who is worse:
A Klansman who belittles you in public and calls you an animal,
or a Candidate who speaks kindly of you in public, while urging her aides and advisers in private to spread poison tales of you far and wide?
The problem is that Obama’s people didn’t get to the microphone with their charges ahead of Bill Clinton. The Obama campaign has yet to learn to anticipate the Clinton tactics of projection and diversion. Even though his wife nominally “won”, Bill spewed the “stolen election” charge knowing full well that Hillary’s thugs had a scheme in place. In fact, Bill and Hill were beefing about the Nevada procedures (allowing workers to vote at their job site) before a single vote had been cast.
It’s starting to seem like Obama is running against Bill Clinton. Maybe Obama can get some mileage out of that.
Pass the popcorn!
If you’re a democrat (democracy hating Stalinist),and you lose an election, even against other democrats, it is clear that there have been egregious voting “irregularities.” :)
I’d rather not. Every election dems like a clock produce scandals, fraud, outlandish charges, conspiracy claims and such. It’s getting kind of tiresome.
“which were won by rival Hillary Clinton.”
Obama should stop complaining and just claim victory. He won Nevada, 13 delegates to 12 for Hillary.
They're just practicing their skills for the general election.
It really helps to have a sense of humor about life.
Things don’t look much better for him here in SC. Many McCain “Independent” crossover voters are in for a shock when they find out that they can’t vote in the Democrat primary because they voted in the Republican primary. I think it will hurt both Obama and Edwards, to the benefit of Hillary. So expect plenty of charges of vote irregularities to be coming out of this one.
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