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Bellwether caucuses: diverse Nevada is a crucial test for Democrats

Voters will head to polls on 22 February in ‘first in the west’ vote that tends to favor campaign with strongest ground support

At a strip mall across the street from the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, several Bernie Sanders volunteers stared at their phones, pretending to be disinterested in politics. Fellow volunteers walked over to them, and pitched the Vermont senator’s solutions to the student debt crisis and rising college tuition costs. Handing over clipboards, they offered volunteer information and urged their pretend-targets to commit to supporting Bernie. Then both groups traded roles, and those who played the distracted UNLV students practiced delivering Sanders’ plans for reform.

Related: Nevada scrambles to avoid Iowa-like chaos as Democratic caucuses approach

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Source: US Politics - theguardian.com


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