NY Times: Once A Hillary Clinton Firewall, Nevada Is Hotly Contested and In Play:

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Cassandra Alvarez, 22, canvassed for Senator Bernie Sanders on Thursday in a Latino neighborhood in northeast Las Vegas


Race in Nevada, Once a Hillary Clinton Firewall, Is Now Hotly Contested


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/20/us/politics/race-in-nevada-once-hillary-clinton-firewall-is-hotly-contested.html

game-show host Marco Antonio Regil stood in the backyard of a suburban home, urging on volunteers for Mr. Sanders and his vow to fight income inequality.

He recalled growing up in Tijuana, with its wide gap between the rich and the poor. “We cannot allow that extreme social disparity to happen in America,” Mr. Regil said.

The dueling pep rallies pointed to how hotly contested the race here has become — particularly among Latino voters. Nevada was once supposed to be a firewall for Mrs. Clinton, its large minority population primed to accelerate her drive to the Democratic nomination. But since her narrow victory in Iowa and crushing defeat in New Hampshire, it has turned into yet another tight and unpredictable contest, in which Mr. Sanders stands to gain more from a victory and Mrs. Clinton stands to lose more from a defeat.

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1. “Firewall”

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2. Hillary's firewall