One to Beat

Clinton’s Nevada Win Shifts Burden Back to Sanders to Stop Her

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton campaigns on Feb. 19, 2016, in Las Vegas.

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The Nevada caucuses finally give Hillary Clinton a clear win in her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination -- and a chance to erase her nightmare 22-point loss in New Hampshire -- but they come with a variety of cautionary signs about the difficulty of putting away Bernie Sanders for good.

Clinton should have won easily in a state where she was better organized, with a Nevada guru in campaign manager Robby Mook, and with a diverse base of voters who are supposed to be locked up for Clinton and resistant to Sanders’ socialist-from-Vermont message.