In The News: Department of Political Science

The Texas Tribune

The state may be different, but the goal is the same for Ted Cruz: Go for the silver.

Bloomberg

Donald Trump is poised to win his third consecutive Republican presidential nominating contest Tuesday when Nevada holds its caucuses, polls show, but low participation and an electoral system that rewards political insiders could diminish the magnitude of the outsider candidate's victory.

Bloomberg

Marco Rubio, the only member of a three-way Republican primary battle that has yet to win a contest, has a lot riding on the Republican caucuses Tuesday in Nevada.

KSNV-TV: News 3

Nevada matters in the race for the White House and that is so apparent out here tonight.

Reno Gazette-Journal

Nevada’s Latino voters made their voice heard on Saturday in the Nevada Democratic caucus.

Vox

Hillary Clinton won the Nevada Democratic caucuses on Saturday. She did so thanks largely to her strength in Clark County — the home of Las Vegas, and the most heavily Latino part of the state.

Fox News

In the first two presidential contests – Iowa and New Hampshire – there wasn’t much talk about young voters. But now that the focus of the Democratic presidential race has shifted to Nevada, the campaigns of Democratic hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have started scouring college campuses and hip neighborhoods around the Silver State in order to win over the this emerging segment of the population.

WPTV

Hillary Clinton’s and Donald Trump’s victories Saturday in Nevada and South Carolina raise two big questions for the next stops in the primary season.

WPTV

At Bernie Sanders’s Westside Las Vegas office Saturday, Connor Paolo, famous for playing Serena van der Woodsen’s younger brother in “Gossip Girl,” will work a phone bank for the Vermont Senator.

Las Vegas Review Journal

A Las Vegas lawyer has gathered more than $100,000 to fund his bid for a seat on the Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education, building an impressive donor base for the low-key contest.

Vox

If you want to know why Saturday's Nevada caucus has suddenly, in its final weeks, turned from a presumed landslide for Hillary Clinton into a total toss-up, ask Emily Sandoval and Maggie Salas-Crespo.

New York Times

In a storefront on this city’s heavily Latino east side, the civil rights leader Dolores Huerta rallied a dozen volunteers for Hillary Clinton on Wednesday night, relating, in Spanish, a Mexican saying about people who go near a cactus only when it is bearing fruit.