Reid, Labor Key Factors in Nev. Caucus Bid

[NVMojo]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democrats were lobbied hard by Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and organized labor before they picked Nevada as the best bet to energize the party's early presidential voting in 2008.

A Democratic rules panel on Saturday recommended that Nevada hold a caucus after Iowa's leadoff contest in mid-January 2008, but before New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation primary. South Carolina was awarded an early primary a week after New Hampshire.

The full Democratic National Committee will have to approve the plan during its August meeting in Chicago before the changes become effective.

The addition of Nevada to the first round of voting is likely to reshape the Democratic presidential campaigning in the opening rounds - shifting some of the candidates' attention and time usually reserved for Iowa and New Hampshire to Nevada's glitzy casinos and hotels, sprawling suburbs and growing Hispanic population.

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