The thought of seeing the Democratic presidential candidates, minus Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., standing before a crowd in Nevada must have been a welcome sight to the party activists who have fought to break the stranglehold on the primary system by Iowa and New Hampshire.

I've never been a fan of having the candidates pour a ton of money into the two states, and if they don't do well there, their campaigns are kaput. That meant a candidate from California or any other Western state, a ...

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