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

[neverseen]

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

Popular vote doesn't choose the nomination, delegates do. It takes a certain number of delegate votes for a candidate for him to get the GOP nod. Think electoral college for the general election. kinda the same thing.

 

[EndTheECB]

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Final Elko County results: Romney 482; Paul 208; Santorum 81; Gingrich 75 @RalstonFlash

RP numbers:

Elko County
2008: 15%
2012: 24,6% (+9,6%)

(Total) Votes: 846 (-520)

Churchill county:
2008: 17%
2012: 17,9% (+0,9%)

(Total) Votes: 666 (-312)

 

[sailingaway]

per this spreadsheet Ron is currently ahead of Gingrich but that special grinch caucus is yet to come https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ap5nJ9CgQStidE0wZ2pPZmdWejQ5azEzZG1kUUZEc0E#gid=0

 

[flynn]

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

Any candidates with 1144 delegates win the nomination. Anyone who wins the beauty contest in term of popularity votes wins the mainstream media championship.

 

[liberty2012]

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[DerailingDaTrain]

Why does Gingrich get a special caucus? So now everybody with a billionaire buddy gets special preference?

 

[RPit]

RP numbers:

Elko County
2008: 15%
2012: 24,6% (+9,6%)

(Total) Votes: 846 (-520)

Churchill county:
2008: 17%
2012: 17,9% (+0,9%)

(Total) Votes: 666 (-312)

So we actually lost number of voters? (but got higher percentage) Or are you saying the overall turnout was lower?

 

[RonPaulGangsta]

Why does Gingrich get a special caucus? So now everybody with a billionaire buddy gets special preference?

 

[liberty2012]

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[Student Of Paulism]

per this spreadsheet Ron is currently ahead of Gingrich but that special grinch caucus is yet to come https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ap5nJ9CgQStidE0wZ2pPZmdWejQ5azEzZG1kUUZEc0E#gid=0

Yea, uhhgg..its obvious where that is going to go. Seriously, 'special gingrich caucus', can they blatantly show favoritism as much as that? It's always something grrrrr

 

[KingNothing]

Why does Gingrich get a special caucus? So now everybody with a billionaire buddy gets special preference?

I don't believe that any delegates will be awarded in the special caucus.

 

[EndTheECB]

So we actually lost number of voters? (but got higher percentage) Or are you saying the overall turnout was lower?

YES.

 

[affa]

Romney left Nevada and is in Colorado but yet that doesn't seem to be a big deal. Remember when Ron left Florida and they acted like that is a bad thing?

Remember when if Ron Paul won Iowa, Iowa didn't matter?
But when he didn't, 15ish votes between Santorum and Romney were a big deal?

 

[Noblegeorge]

Welcome to the club! Were all coming out of the woodwork now!

 

[AlienLanes82]

Any candidates with 1144 delegates win the nomination. Anyone who wins the beauty contest in term of popularity votes wins the mainstream media championship.

OK, so delegates are pledged to support a particular person on the first ballot - is that right? And on subsequent ballots, they're released? So it matters if there's no winner on the first ballot?

What determines how many delegates a particular precinct receives? Pure population?

 

[rb3b3]

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

how are you calculating 17,9%???? i calculate 24.5% of the vote in churchill.. check your math bud

 

[BrianH]

Present tally:
Romney 3374 52.4%
Paul 1278 19.9%
Gingrich 1215 18.9%
Santorum 567 8.8%
Total 6436

 

[Lord Xar]

Are there still a lot of rural precincts waiting to report? We need a bigger lead over newt.

 

[sailingaway]

I don't believe that any delegates will be awarded in the special caucus.

the media won't care. They will count it.

But I heard that before...then later reports didn't confirm. Now I'm just not sure.

 

[liberty2012]

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