To those who are discouraged about Nevada Results

[tbone717]

and I was there in 76. Ronald Reagan lost those states by tiny margins and then went into the part of the country that he dominated. The south. He won by huge margins. He dominated in the west as well, winning overwhelmingly. There is NO comparison to this campaign. RP is coming in 3rd and 4th and lossing by huge margins in the later states. Reagan won every last delegate in Alaska Texas Utah Montana, California,Idaho wyoming,ND and SD, He won in every state south of the mason dixon line except FL. He won almost every state in the west except oregon. Reagan won every winner take all state and narrowly split the delegates in many of the states he lost.
Guess what? He still lost.

Correct. I think the only state of the first six where he lost by a wide margin was Vermont.

 

[klamath]

And Reagan won nevada. His campaign manager was Sen. Laxalt from nevada. In fact your state played a very big role in that their was like 30 delegates undecided at the convention time. Reagan tried to play politics and picked liberal Sen Swicker from PA before the convention as his VP, trying to sway the undecided delegates. It backfired and he lost a block of undecided delegates from MS. Then Reagan tried to pass a plank in the platform to force the candidates to name their VP choices before the nominating vote. He lost and showed he did not have the votes to win.