The paper of record saw it as I saw it:
Headline reads:
"Clinton is clear winner"
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/jan 16/clinton-clear-winner
Over that of the right-wing LV R-J. If they think Hillary did well, I'll go with them. ;-)
the Las Vegas Sun...while a more left leaning news paper is owned by the Greenspun Family. WHoe are pretty big supporters of the Clintons. So that headline doesn't really mean a whole hell of a lot. Most people here read the RJ. So go RJ!
How is this "sour grapes"? The LV Journal IS right-wing. The liberal Las-Vegas Sun stated that the Journal endorsement is likely to have a detrimental effect on Obama, as the right-wing LV Journal is loathed by liberals:
http://www.lasvegassun.com/blogs/ralston s-flash/2008/jan/16/barack-obama-least-l ikeable/
The Las Vegas Review-Journal's endorsement this morning of Barack Obama is an exemplar of intellectual bankruptcy, designed to be an attack on Hillary Clinton by using a phony embrace of Obama. It is likely to have the opposite effect because Democratic activists loathe the RJ -- and they are who will be voting Saturday. And with the RJ's track record on major endorsements, this could be, as CityLife Editor Steve Sebelius put it, the kiss of death for Obama's campaign.
I don't know about you, but if the major LIBERAL newspaper in Las Vegas endorses Clinton and the RIGHT-WING paper in town endorses Obama, don't you think that liberals will see that as a detriment to Obama? Especially considering the Sun's contention that for a Democrat the right-wing paper's endorsement would likely be the kiss of death?
Obama gets the endorsement of Jack Carter which happened last night at 9:00PM PST.
jACK WAS THE DEMOCRATIC SENATE CANDIDATE IN 2006 and the son of Jimmy Carter
