Friday, January 18, 2008
Nevada caucuses today
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Now that the lawsuit over the at-large caucuses on the Las Vegas strip has been settled we can take a look at what’s going to happen today.
Nevada has a total of 33 delegates up for grabs. The breakdown according to the Green Papers is: 16 district / 6 at large; 3 Pledged PLEOs; 7 Unpledged PLEOs; 1 Unpledged add-on
(For those not paying attention in class a PLEO’s are Party Leaders and Elected Officials)
From the Nevada Secretary of State website:
Democrats
Saturday, January 19, 2008Detailed Caucus Information: www.nvdemscaucus.com
Eligible Participants: Open to all registered Democrats. If you are not already registered but eligible to vote, you may complete a registration form and participate on the day of the caucus. If you will be 18 by November 4, 2008 and are otherwise eligible to vote, you may participate in the caucus.
Caucus Locations: Check my Caucus Location
Sign-In: Arrive by 11:30 am
Basic Caucus Process: Caucus participants will indicate which candidate they support. The precinct caucus chair will then announce which candidates have the most support and which candidates do not have enough support to meet the “viability” threshold. Caucus participants who support a candidate who is not viable and has not met the threshold of support to continue will then realign themselves with their second choice candidate. Based on the size of the presidential preference groups in support of one candidate or another, the delegates to the county convention are apportioned. Additional Information
Absentee Voting: Not permitted
So for all of you East coasters… you won’t have to stay up until 1am to get the results.
Update: You can get results from the Nevada Democratic Party here
Also… Mitt Romney has won the Nevada Republican caucus (event though Ron Paul was the only one to campaign there)
McCain has a 1% lead over Paul for second place.
Update II: NBC News has declared Hillary Clinton the winner of the Nevada caucus
Update III: Huge delegate victory for Clinton. She received 13 delegates, while Obama was far behind with, uh, 12 delegates.
Update IV: Turns out, Obama got 13 delegates. No, turns out we have no idea how many delegates Clinton and Obama got.
Posted by Oreo at 7:36 AM 
Apparently the Obama camp is claiming that they received the 13th delegate in Nevada. I’d work it out myself, but without Congressional District-level data, it’s hard to compute much….