Before South Carolina and Nevada: Campaign + Candidate Tracker

Down to the final night before the crucial and potentially race-changing primary in South Carolina and the important - not as big as SC for the Republicans - caucus in Nevada for the Dems. Each state appears to have narrowed the list of possible winners to two: McCain and Huckabee in SC, Hillary and Obama […]

Nevada: Casino caucuses are upheld

Breaking out of the Silver State this afternoon is word that the Teachers Union lawsuit against allowing caucus locations to be set up in casinos has been thrown out and the plan to caucus on the Vegas Strip will go forward. It was a bitter and potentially damaging fight within the Democratic party, but apparently […]

Ads: Nevada and South Carolina

Three ads have gone up in the last few days focusing on the two states coming up this Saturday - Nevada and South Carolina.
First, the Obama campaign has put up two fresh TV spots in Nevada in a surprisingly hard push to compete well in a state that some members of the campaign have already […]

Nevada Dem Debate: Analysis & Rundown

Deep policy discussions and overwhelming civility were the hallmarks of the MSNBC Democratic debate from Vegas last night. In what was termed by the pundits as a clear “cooling off” period for the three frontrunners, the candidates generally stayed away from the explosive topics that rocked the contest earlier in the week and over the […]

Nevada Democratic Debate: Liveblog

Refresh frequently for updates. Kucinich actually ended up losing a last-minute court appeal to get in the debate, so he won’t be in it. Bad news for third-wheel Edwards…

9:04 - Brian Williams (good moderator) starts us off with - you guessed it - a question on the race issue and the fighting between […]

Nevada Democratic debate: Preview

Important debate tonight foe the Democratic candidates in a newly important early state: Nevada. The Dems are in Vegas for a real showdown in a rough-and-tumble battle for the Silver State. Polls are indicating the race for Saturday’s caucus is very close, with only a few points separating the three top candidates. Even John Edwards […]

Nevada: A Dem pile-up shakes up the race

Leave it to this crazy primary season to have the wacky state of Nevada and its rookie caucuses to possibly throw a major wrench into the already-jumbled race to the Democratic nomination.  As if Hillary vs. Obama and their nasty battles weren’t enough, a new NV poll from the Reno Gazette Journal has the important […]

Dem debate: Candidate rundown

In order of best to worst:

Joe Biden - Not actually a factor in the presidential race (Veep’s a different story), but he still had a great night in Vegas. Perhaps he got lucky on the slots, but he was in a super mood and became and easy fan favorite with his quick wit and sudden […]

Nevada Democratic debate: Analysis

How quickly the tables turn. After the last Dem debate, no one could take about anything other than frontrunner Hillary’s huge stumble on the issue of driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants. Her pathetic dodge and flip-flop made the Dem race, well, a race.
Last night found Hillary mostly in control and even getting a few nasty […]

Nevada Democratic debate: Liveblog

Welcome to Political-Buzz.com’s Democratic debate liveblog! We’ll get you up to speed on everything going on in Vegas as it happens, so please refresh the page frequently.

8:01 PM Eastern - Blitzer’s there, introducing us to the affair, but where are the candidates? Oh… Wolf explains that we will get to see the “press walk” (basically […]