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Just before the Iowa caucus, the Clinton campaign tried to spin an impending loss in Iowa as the result of illegitimate voting by college students. On the stump, Bill Clinton sounded ominous tones about college students pretending to be Iowan for a day and then voting again in their home state primaries. The results however were disastrous. Confusion reigned among Clinton campaign volunteers about whether or not they should be encouraging Iowa college students from out of state to caucus. In the end, the Clinton campaign ended up suppressing no one's vote but their own, losing the Iowa youth vote by 45 percentage points --- 11% to 56% --- in an election where young people tripled to make up 22% of caucus-goers. Now, on the eve of the Nevada caucus, the Clinton campaign is again betting against voter turnout, making encouraging statements about a lawsuit that would have shut down nine caucus locations and disenfranchised tens of thousands of shifts workers just hours before the caucus --- with little chance to make other plans to participate. And again, their own campaign seems confused by the mixed messages.
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