Clinton fails to reach viability, earns zero votes

[Red Oak]

7:35 p.m.: Zero votes for Clinton at UNL caucus

LINCOLN — Hillary Clinton failed to make the cut at a Democratic Party presidential caucus dominated by University of Nebraska-Lincoln students Saturday.

Bernie Sanders out-polled Clinton 194 to 11. Clinton needed 31 votes to be a viable caucus candidate. Ten of her supporters left the caucus rather than realign with Sanders. One student moved to the Sanders camp with cheers.

Final result: Sanders, 195. Clinton, zero.

Claire Shea, 20, a sophomore from Memphis, Tennessee, said she supported Clinton because she is in a better position to improve on the Affordable Care Act.

"Inspiring is good,'' she said of Sanders, "but you have to take into account what has been done.''

Isaiah Miller, 19, of Leigh, Nebraska, choked up when speaking out for Sanders. He pulled an expired food stamp card from his wallet as a symbol of the importance of Sanders' pledge to help low-income people.

Josh Waltjer, of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, said he grew up in a family led by a single mother who relied on social programs to survive. He such Sanders would see that such help continues.

"There's one visionary in this election and that's Bernie Sanders,'' Waltjer said.



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[comradebillyboy]

1. RCP shows Hillary winning 10 delegates and

Bernie winning 14 delegates from Nebraska. Your title seems to be very misleading. Today's total delegate split was 55 Clinton to 47 Sanders.

[TheFarseer]

2. Some NE results were weird

There was a county where a lone Bernie supporter showed up and no Clinton supporters. The poor guy couldn't get counted because that's not enough people to get a delegate. No one showed up in two counties.