NV CAUCUS-GOERS: Please post your observations / live results in this thread!

[RecoveringNeoCon]

Saulo Londono @SauloLondono Reply Retweet Favorite · Open
Final Elko County results: Romney 482; Paul 208; Santorum 81; Gingrich 75 @RalstonFlash

NICE!!!! Yeah!!!

 

[bronxboy10]

Saulo Londono @SauloLondono Reply Retweet Favorite · Open
Final Elko County results: Romney 482; Paul 208; Santorum 81; Gingrich 75 @RalstonFlash

Wow, that's a home run as far as i'm concerned. Awesome!

 

[RPit]

Saulo Londono @SauloLondono Reply Retweet Favorite · Open
Final Elko County results: Romney 482; Paul 208; Santorum 81; Gingrich 75 @RalstonFlash

HOLY SHITTTT> WoW!!!!!! The best news of the day so far. AMAZING!!

 

[EndTheECB]

Jon Ralston @RalstonFlash Reply Retweet Favorite · Open
RT @SauloLondono: Final Churchill County results: Romney 362; Gingrich 144; Paul 119; Santorum 41 @RalstonFlash/ #nvcaucus #blowout

Hmm bad sign. In 2008 RP got 17% in Churchill compared to 17,9% this time.

 

[samsung1]

Saulo Londono @SauloLondono Reply Retweet Favorite · Open
Final Elko County results: Romney 482; Paul 208; Santorum 81; Gingrich 75 @RalstonFlash

hell yeah!

 

[thelaibon]

Many people don't want to be delegates. Its a pretty lengthy process, and many places it also costs money to go go to county and state conventions. (entrance fee + travel fee)..So it can be true.

Understandable. So which is more valuable here, popular vote or delegates? Delegates is "the name of the game" as Paul put it. So the media gets ahold of the "Romney wins Nevada" eye candy, but Paul would actually take home more delegates? Sounds like a win for the RP camp.

 

[flynn]

Can someone explain how this is possible, given that Romney is sweeping up the popular vote?

Delegates are long term. Romney is winning the short term contest.

 

[Student Of Paulism]

Saulo Londono @SauloLondono Reply Retweet Favorite · Open
Final Elko County results: Romney 482; Paul 208; Santorum 81; Gingrich 75 @RalstonFlash

 

[Austrian Econ Disciple]

who is keeping track of delegate counts? And where'd you get that 70% RP delegate number from?

Rough estimation. This is only with the available information that we have in this thread and in ones posted by Nevada RP supporters. Even in areas where Romney beat us by 50% in the popular vote we usually have at least half the delegates if not more, and in areas where we do better we pull in 70-100% of them.

 

[RPit]

LOL

 

[thelaibon]

Delegates are long term. Romney is winning the short term contest.

It's funny how all the money in the world can buy ads, media attention, and myopic voters... but money can't buy dedication. Wow RP camp!

 

[AlienLanes82]

Can someone explain to me the role and relevance of delegates? Sorry to be so thick...

 

[pauliticalfan]

Wow, those Elko County numbers are nice. That's like 25%, only got 17% in 2008.

 

[sailingaway]

NICE!!!! Yeah!!!

I thought we wanted to win that....

or maybe that was nye

 

[Austrian Econ Disciple]

except I think they are bound by percent of vote. I'm not sure when binding ends, it is 'at convention' but unclear to me which convention

Delegates are bound on the initial vote to their proportional vote, however after the first round of voting (brokered convention) they are unbound and can support anyone they want.

 

[No1butPaul]

Saulo Londono @SauloLondono Reply Retweet Favorite · Open
Final Elko County results: Romney 482; Paul 208; Santorum 81; Gingrich 75 @RalstonFlash

Omg...awesome

 

[rblgenius]

LOL.... Wow.

I'm in Ireland as well!

I'm from scotland !

 

[rp2012win]

laura myers @lmyerslvrj Reply Retweet Favorite · Open
Mostly @ronpaul @newtgingrich voters in Nye County, says Pahrump reporter, citing intervus w/ #nvcaucus goers. Paul barely won Nye in 08

 

[RPit]

Its amazing how much being a Mormon helps

 

[affa]

At a local level, the degree of voting "fraud" that has occurred has been completely, unquestionably, negligible.

Not that I am saying widespread vote fraud is occurring, but isn't the point of vote fraud that you get away with it? And why do you think it can only happen in 'close' races? When polls are correct, people use them to validate the vote numbers. When polls are way off, people dismiss the polls and act surprised. Neither means anything, since polls can be manipulated as well - first by choosing respondents, and second by asking biased questions.

Again, I'm not saying there is voter fraud. But I'm also not saying there isn't. When we hear about votes getting carted off without being counted while someone gets a "soda" we're going to suspect something is up. Is it possible he really wanted a root beer that bad? Yep. It's possible he's an upstanding citizen that's never told a lie. But that doesn't give him the right to invalidate the legitimacy of the vote he's in charge of.