Tough-Guy Politics on the Vegas Strip

dawn, the answer to any unfairness is not disenfranchise even more people. This should not even be on the list of possible answers.

I'm voting for ABH! Anyone But Hilary!!! I am a female and registered Independent. My Dem choice is Barack, if Hilary wins the nomination I will vote Republican no matter who the nominee is. Hilary is only personally and professionally motivated. She is motivated by power. She plays the gender card and is polarizing. She claims 35 years of experience but yet can't point to any particular thing that she has done to make a massive, lasting or critical "change". She will say or do anything. Her claims are empty. The most importnat quality our President can have is the ability to bring people together. They need to be able to form a great team and lead that team. Barack will be a great leader. Hilary is polarizing. ABH!!

So much for everyone get's to vote platform. Everyone get's to vote if their vote is for hillieary. Support higher tax's social health care and less freedom. VOTE FOR HILLIEARY.

Dear twinmom48,

How can anyone know whom we're voting for??? When I enter a voting booth, there is no one in there with me and there is no one looking over my shoulder! Relax and calm down on that point.

Another thing, the heads of any organization can tell anyone else whom they support, that don't mean every voter is just gong to go along with what they say. Again, they are not in the voting booth with me, watching me make a mark on my ballot paper.

The BIG and IMPORTANT point is that Hillary and Co when they didn't get the support they lobbied for and wanted, they decided to be down-right UNDEMOCRATIC and go to a court house to try and say that the system wasn't fair!!!

1. It is fair. It allows each individual worker to vote.
2. It was her party that brought this system in!!!
3. She is trying to deny the ordinary working voters, their vote and subsequent "voice".

She ought to hang her head low and be ashamed of herself. No wonder she don't want to talk about it now. Its a pure disgrace ans shows EXACTLY just how much high regard she and her gang has for the public of America and their voting voices.

Its just disgraceful!

This does not sound like an attempt to wantonly disenfranchise anyone. It sounds like an attempt to keep some people from getting to vote at work while other people, who are also working that Saturday, will be prevented from voting. Lots of Sen. Clinton's supporters, disproportionately working class, will be working on 1/19, and no one is making special provisions to ensure that they vote. They simply do not have the time to get to their caucus site half-hour early, wait the hour or so the caucus will last, and then get back to their job sites. They also can't get to these casinos to caucus either. UNFAIR.

Wait a minute everybody! There are some important issues that need to be addressed here.

Perhaps the most important, do we really want our employers and coworkers knowing whom we support - maybe some or even many of us do; but what about those for whom the separation between politics and the workplace is inviolate. What about them? I don't live in a caucus state but my understanding is that by holding them in neighborhoods or in public buildings people from various walks of life come together to stand up for their candidates - I'm thinking that their bosses and nosy coworkers are not necessarily there taking down names. I'm surprised that Obama doesn't see the proposal for workplace caucusing as having a chilling effect on privacy and the workplace.

The other objectionable aspect of this article is how slanted it is. So what if local people who support Hilary Clinton are pursuing this lawsuit. The courts seem the obvious place for this important issue to receive the full airing that it deserves. It doesn't take someone as brilliant as Obama to understand why he and his campaign couldn't possibly object to this proposal and are afraid of the court's scrutiny because he's been endorsed by the casino employees but appears to be less concerned about possible retaliation toward and harassment against those who oppose him.

ABC show some balance in what you report. Like give us some details and analysis of the lawsuit. Find some experts who can examine this issue the way the court will.

Pretty pathetic on the part of the Clinton camp -- politics as usual. They are afraid that the casino workers, who due to their work schedules, have difficulties in participating in the caucus, might overwhelmingly support Obama. This is why I will never vote for her, regardless of who the Republican nominee is. No more lesser of two evils for me, anymore. I want to vote for someone for whom I **want** to vote. Barack Obama is such a candidate.

I cant believe that someone who claims to want to unite the country is allowing such a divisive tactic. Why isnt this being brought to the headlines. This is more important than watching perhaps the greatest performance to play on and woo the women voters emotions seen over and over again. Talking about a free ride from the media! These polling stations were approved last year, if there were any objections, then, not now would have been the time to express them. Would Clinton's folks be doing this had they received the endorsement? Or perhaps a better question is; Do you think that Obama would employ this divisive tactic had he not received the endorsement? I dont think he would. Shame on Clinton, I think this scratches her from my list of potential candidates I would vote for!!

this is funny. why didn't these guys move to block these votes immediately when the whole stuff was put in place? why is it that they are doing it now? because the culinary union didn't endorce hillary but endorced obama? the reason is simple and glaring... they waited for the powerful culinary union to endorce hillary and when it didn't happen, they are trying to brew trouble. it's a pity.

If there was anything objectenable in by having casino voters vote in their own caucus- why was the suit brought by clinton associates only AFTER major endorsements were made favoring Obama, NOT BEFORE. Why does HRC decry that the caucus in Iowa do not allow people who work, the ability to participate. THIS is only about one thing- the Clinton campaign is sorely against the rights of people who may vote against her- ie- HRC IS AGAINST DEMOCRACY THAT WORKS. If she does win the nomination, this red blood american voter will vote against her.

i just saw her on the Tim Russert interview and she claimed she knew nothing about the lawsuit and didn't want to discuss it. Typical politician!

What can one say?

"It takes a village to suppress the vote."

HRC's people should stop this NOW. The answer to allegedly "unfair" access to some voters is not to bring an action a week before the vote to make it unfairly discriminatory from the opposite direction. These people are truly disgusting.

I kind of understand what the brouhaha is about. But what occurs to me is that Nevada is taking a step toward open voting, which for me is allowing people to vote almost anywhere.

The teachers should be allowed to vote in the school they work in, should it be a polling place. Or they should be able to vote at a polling close to them, instead of trying to scramble to their designated polling place.

If the state feels they can do this for an area the size of Las Vegas and it's neighboring counties, why can't they do it for the rest of the state?

That's the Solomonic decision. Let the teachers have the same open polling places as the casino workers. The upside is a potential for higher turnout for all candidates, a big step toward election reform. Sure there will be problems, but given GOP voter suppression tactics, they'll be somewhat predictable and easily remedied.

Hillary Clinton is becoming the most devisive candidate in history -- women vs men; old vs young; blacks vs whites; hispanics vs blacks. Now she's sounding like a union buster. She and her husband are damaging the Democratic party. The Clintons need to bow out gracefully and let the nation move on to a better future.

It looks like another president is going to be elected because of a court case rather than the voices and votes of the working public!!!

...and thats a national disgrace. Well done Hillary, your keeping the record of corruption in the Whitehouse up and your not even there yet!

God help us all if she gets in.

I am a lawyer and I read the Complaint. Here is why the lawsuit is meritless. The fact is any Nevada resident who will be 18 by ELECTION DAY (not necessarly Caucus Day) can caucus in ANY CAUCUS LOCATION -- EVEN IF THEY GO TO THE WRONG ONE! So, the allegation in the lawsuit that even custodians at schools who set up caucus sites can't vote is wrong. The employees at the location can vote AT THAT LOCATION EVEN IF THEY DON'T LIVE IN THAT PRECINCT! SO there is nothing unfair about setting up extra "At Large" caucus sites that, theoretically, ANY Nevada resident can vote at! Personally, I think this lawsuit is disgusting and really turns me off to Hillary who seems to represent old style back-room politics at its worst. And then to have the Clinton Campaign disavow a connection to the lawsuit is laughable! The Republicans can't wait to run against her. I am supporting Barack Obama! He is the real deal America!

Well....so much for her interest in allowing working people to have a voice. Incredible!

If Clinton had gotten the support from the unions they would have been lauding the effort to make sure these workers could be heard. All this will do is force a sympathy for Obama, what happened to try to win on the issues?

Each vote she is is trying to block is a vote of an American human being!

How can she stand up and say she is for democracy when she has the chance off camera, to be trying to deny the voters THROUGH THE SYSTEM HER PARTY BOUGHT IN,
throw out their vote and thus their voices!

This one presidential candidate is a disgrace. A horrible, discreditable, disgrace. Why o' why does the sheep of this country want this person into the Whitehouse?

There's no end to her hypocrisies!

What a surprise!There she is again, using her tricky law suits and corrupted connections to silence the voice of the voters.America wake up!