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Lucky chips on campaign trail

Guess what, it’s the 21st century, and one of the guys running for president collects good luck charms. From The Swamp: The Obama campaign plays Las Vegas today, staging another “Change That Works for You” rally. En route, the presidential candidate was asked what lucky charms work for him. Curious about items that Obama had […]

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Thoughts on the Sin City Showdown

As I said yesterday, I was lucky enough to volunteer to help facilitate UNLV’s Debate Watch event yesterday. You can read about the debate itself from the LVRJ: Hyped as the single most anticipated night of the long presidential campaign thus far, Thursday marked the first time in history a presidential debate was held in

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life in vegas

Sin City Presidential Showdown

Today my office is a few hundred yards from the center of a media firestorm, through no fault of my own. The Democratic Presidential debate is happening at the Cox Pavilion right here on campus. From the LVRJ: It’s fight night in Las Vegas. The jabs will fly. The contenders will duck and weave. They

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