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As voting continued into its fourth hour, several delegates were seen napping around the convention floor.: Politicker Photo.RENO-Although the speeches and delegate allocation were over in the early afternoon, the Nevada Democratic Convention lasted late into the evening Saturday with staffers and volunteers spending hours working to elect delegates to the national convention.

A morning that began with controversy over the finer points of convention process gave way to hours of tedium as delegates from Nevada's three congressional districts broke up into separate rooms at the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno for self-nomination and voting for national delegates.

Yesterday, Westminster City Councilman and Democratic superdelegate Greg Pecoraro threw his support behind Sen. Barack Obama.

In a statement, Pecoraro said he is "very excited to join the large majority of Maryland Democrats who expressed their enthusiasm for Senator Obama’s candidacy in our state's presidential primary."

"Like them, I believe Barack Obama is the right leader for our time. With Barack Obama as our nominee and as our President, we have real hope that a new way of governing the nation is at hand. I strongly believe that Senator Obama offers us the best opportunity we have had for many years to turn away from the politics of division and despair, and look towards an America of opportunity and progress."

Obama now has 10 of Maryland's superdelegates while 11 are supporting Sen. Hillary Clinton. Of the 99 delegates voting at the Denver convention in August, Obama leads Clinton, 53 to 38, while 8 are unknown.

PolitickerMD.com most recently spoke with Pecoraro on May 15.

RENO-Due to Reid's press conference, it was only possible to catch the conclusion of actor Kal Penn speech in favor of Obama. Luckily for Penn, he wasn't asked to immediately follow Clinton.

RENO-U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid takes reporters' questions at the Nevada Democratic Convention.  Reid predicts that the Democratic primary will be over in two weeks and that the party will be able to come together against Republicans in the fall.

Reid also discusses Mass. Sen. Ted Kennedy's health, renews his pledge to remain neutral in the Democratic primary, and predicts that the Florida and Michigan delegates will be seated in Denver.

RENO-Reid gave probably the most red-meat of the Democratic speeches of the day, in this clip calling John McCain a "George Bush clone."

RENO-U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid continues extolling the drawn-out Democratic primary season and refers to presumptive Republican nominee John McCain as a "flawed candidate." "He has the wrong temperament, he's wrong on the war, he's wrong on the economy and we're going to beat John McCain," said Reid.

NAPAVINE -

According to banners hanging from every streetlight in town, Napavine is Tiger Country. But Saturday afternoon the local high school gymnasium, where the Tigers play basketball Delegates seek support at Napavine High School/Politicker Photoevery winter, was also home to the 3rd Congressional District Democratic caucus. At the caucus, five delegates, two males and three females, would be elected to the Democratic National Convention in Denver this summer to elect the party's nominee.

But he delegate contest was not the day's only vote. With the advent of the state's "top two" primary that effectively ends the Party primary system, the Democrats' official nominee for Congress was also decided at the caucus. Rep. Brian Baird, the five term congressman from Vancouver, won his party's nomination by a vote of 59 to 24 over fellow Democrat Cheryl Crist.

FRANKFORT -- While prominent Republicans - including presumptive Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain (R-Ariz. ) - spent yesterday in Louisville hammering Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.) like a general election opponent, Senator Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) targeted McCain in her own right today in Frankfort, even though her path to the Democratic nomination remains winding.

“He simply has the wrong ideas and the wrong vision for America,” said Clinton at the beginning of her speech.

“He said that on the fundamentals and principles of the Republican Party, he and President Bush are in agreement,” Clinton continued. “You may think that is hardly possible to be in agreement with President Bush, but that’s what Senator McCain said.”

RENO-Former Pres. Bill Clinton wraps up his convention speech with a call for troops to be withdrawn from Iraq and for Democrats to come together in the fall.

RENO-Former Pres. Bill Clinton continues his call for party unity.  Clinton notes that compared to some of the primary fights he has witnessed, this campaign has been relatively tame.