Las Vegas

Hillary Clinton held an economic roundtable this morning at a printing facility just off of Industrial Road. Industrial runs parallel to the Strip and has all the same mainstays–gambling, stripping, pawning–but without the gloss of gilded-age glamour. And in addition to the sin business, it’s actually got some real businesses, too. All in all, it’s a fitting place for Clinton to hold her economic roundtable.

It’s a tiny space in one of the company’s office/work rooms and there were nearly as many journalists as actual voters, who numbered about 50. But this is the kind of intimate event–timed on the heels of President Bush’s economic stimulus package announcement–designed to get onto the afternoon and evening news, not to sway undecided voters.