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Clout of Early NV Caucuses

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Carson City, NV - Now that Nevada caucuses will be among the first in the nation, making it a major early battleground for presidential contenders, there's a push on to get the candidates to address health care and financial security. Voters across the Silver State are being asked to take a pledge that the AARP's Carla Sloan says will draw attention to a pair of issues that surveys show are critical to Nevada voters.

“[They should take a pledge] that they believe health care and long term financial security are the most pressing domestic issues facing our nation and we don't believe those are Democratic, or Republican issues; they're American issues.”

Sloan believes if a large number of voters pledge to only vote for candidates who commit to act on those two issues, then Nevada's early caucus voting could impact the rest of the nation.

State officials from both sides of the aisle were on hand Wednesday for the unveiling of the "United We Stand Campaign," which the AARP's Carla Sloan says keys in on issues that were identified as being the most crucial in recent surveys.

“Ninety percent of our members said that they were concerned about affording the cost of health care, and then on the financial security side, 84 percent told us they were concerned about having enough money to meet their daily living expenses.”

Sloan adds that her organization has more than 300,000 members statewide, and they tend to have an impact because according to the latest data, 58 percent of AARP members have always voted in state legislative and gubernatorial races in Nevada, and 72 percent vote most of the time.



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