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jillan

(39,451 posts)
Sat Feb 20, 2016, 03:00 AM Feb 2016

Please read about the Nevada caucuses and what is going on.

It's a quick read - it's late, not going to sit here and copy and paste.
Bernie supporters have no probs clicking links

Lots of finger pointing going on already. Let's just hope Bernie wins big so there are no questions.
His team is definitely ready....

http://www.buzzfeed.com/evanmcsan/after-iowa-fears-of-yet-another-caucus-disaster-in-nevada-fi?utm_term=.rfon8JWL0#.oyOmLZxY5

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Please read about the Nevada caucuses and what is going on. (Original Post) jillan Feb 2016 OP
For link-leary folks, a brief excerpt: DeadLetterOffice Feb 2016 #1
I'm happy to read that the Bernie campaign is lawyered up. JDPriestly Feb 2016 #3
Sounds like a mess davidpdx Feb 2016 #2
"recording each precinct" aspirant Feb 2016 #4
Sounds like Camp Weathervane is worried nxylas Feb 2016 #5
It's a shame I won't be able to watch the coverage today :-( VerseX Feb 2016 #6

DeadLetterOffice

(1,352 posts)
1. For link-leary folks, a brief excerpt:
Sat Feb 20, 2016, 03:25 AM
Feb 2016
Ahead of Saturday’s caucuses, people are worrying about something really going wrong here in Las Vegas. First the party was concerned about having enough volunteers. Now, conspiracy theories abound, and the fear that Nevada will look like the mess earlier this month in Iowa is haunting both Democratic campaigns. In Iowa, the complicated structure and tight result led to the image of an election being decided by a series of coin flips.

<snip>

Clinton supporters were chattering Friday about rumored Republican efforts to take advantage of a loophole in the system to register and caucus with the Democrats for Bernie. The state party and the Nevada Secretary of state warned that Republicans attempting to pretend they’re Democrats to caucus could disqualify them from caucusing with the GOP next week.

Meanwhile, the Sanders campaign, burned by an Iowa caucus process they still say wasn’t fair, has built a robust “election protection program” for Bernie volunteers to fall back on if things go sideways. The system was built, based in part, on lessons learned in Iowa: It includes a handful of attorneys on hand and a hotline for Sanders precinct captains — the trained Sanders partisans on hand to wrangle the rest of his supporters during the raucous caucus process. The team includes experts on the Nevada system, ready to pounce and contest things they think are not going well.

Caucus are always hotbeds of partisan conspiracy, but after Iowa, things are even more torqued up than usual. Part of it is Nevada and the craziness of last time. In 2008, Clinton won the popular vote, but President Obama won the most delegates. That led to headlines declaring two Democratic winners — something that still stings here, and has led many to expect a less-than-smooth Saturday once caucusing gets rolling.


More at the link in the OP.

JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
3. I'm happy to read that the Bernie campaign is lawyered up.
Sat Feb 20, 2016, 06:02 AM
Feb 2016

We need a head count, a real vote and not just delegate numbers. The results in Iowa are not at all clear to me. That is I don't think they are a good basis for predicting who would win in Iowa in November. Are Democrats really split evenly between Hillary and Bernie?

Or was that apparent and announced outcome just the result of a skewed tabulating system for the Iowa caucuses?

I hope that kind of question will not be asked about the Nevada caucuses.

We do need election protection for Bernie in Nevada.

davidpdx

(22,000 posts)
2. Sounds like a mess
Sat Feb 20, 2016, 03:46 AM
Feb 2016

I'm glad I won't be there. When it comes time for me to vote I'll be at home with my ballot.

nxylas

(6,440 posts)
5. Sounds like Camp Weathervane is worried
Sat Feb 20, 2016, 08:09 AM
Feb 2016

They're getting their excuses ready now in case the coronation hits another roadblock.

 

VerseX

(19 posts)
6. It's a shame I won't be able to watch the coverage today :-(
Sat Feb 20, 2016, 08:50 AM
Feb 2016

I was really looking forward to it. Hopefully I will get out in time to catch the last bit of it.

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