HNN reports, they cut cards for a delegate in Nevada

[Tulkas]

They said that the Clinton rep cut a queen of hearts and the Obama rep cut a ten of spades. So Clinton got the extra delegate.


If the cut had gone the other way Obama would have won by 2 delegates.


This really was a close contest.

[jackson_dem]

1. This shows how much nonsense caucuses are

[Tulkas]

2. can't argue that

[Kolesar]

4. You got something right... eom

[MaineDem]

21. Seriously, how would you handle this?

You have 16 people in a room. Eight for one candidate and eight for another. The winner gets a delegate. No one wants to change to the other candidate. How do you decide?

As long as everyone agrees that a coin toss or card draw is sufficient - and it was allowed by the rules ahead of time - what's wrong with that procedure?

[aquart]

3. How frighteningly appropriate for Nevada.

Lovely story.

[MonkeyFunk]

5. That's perfectly normal

but I doubt it was for a national delegate - it was far more likely to be for a state delegate.

[MaineDem]

7. I think it was for state delegate

They don't elect National Delegates until the convention in April.

And it is perfectly normal to decide a delegate this way. Here in Maine we flip a coin or whatever both sides agree to use. (Also for state delegate positions in a dead heat.)

[dailykoff]

6. I'm beginning to wonder about Nevda.

When do they pull out the roulette wheels?

[THUNDER HANDS]

8. Clinton Rep - David Blaine

Obama never had a chance.

:)

[1corona4u]

9. What?

No 'rock, paper, scissors' like Iowa? No flipping a coin? :sarcasm:

Nice to see people take elections for the leader of the free world so seriously.:sarcasm: :eyes:

[Barack_America]

10. Was that for a state delegate or a national delegate?

It makes a big difference. All of the local "votes" were translated into about 10,000 state delegates (I believe that's the term). these state delegates in turn will turn around and become national delegates, with 13 going to Obama and 12 to Clinton.

So does the article mention if this was one of the 10,000 delegates? My thinking from, what people who worked the caucuses have said, is that it's one of the 10,000 state delegates.

[MaineDem]

11. Yes, state delegate

NV elects national Delegates in April.

[Maribelle]

15. Sorry, it was to the county conventions in February. (n/t)

[MaineDem]

16. My mistake, sorry

I didn't realize they had county conventions.

[Maribelle]

20. Say, one or two weeks ago someone posted links to this important infomation.

Thanks - - whomever you are!

[Maribelle]

14. Neither.

It was for delegates to the county conventions.

[Maribelle]

12. It is not true that Obama has one more delegate than Hillary, to begin with

There is only one truth we know regarding delegates this morning. And it is a truth from the State of Nevada, not the bumbling, babbling, mind numbing spit of CNN and MSNBC, or the like.

As of this morning, with 98.07% of the counties reporting, the State of Nevada posts that Hillary has 582 more delegates attending the county conventions on Feb 23rd than Obama has.

STATEWIDE TOTAL (Hillary) 5355 50.71% (Obama) 4773 45.19% http://www.nvdems08.com/

5355 - 4773 = 582

County convention This means that in the county conventions, Hillary has potentially 582 more people choosing delegates to the state convention that could be taking her side. Obama has not won anything regarding delegates.

State convention Those delegates chosen at at the country level will participate in the selection of delegates to the nation convention. 16 of those will be based on the support the candidates received in the three congressional districts. This fact appears to be 32,000 feet over the heads of CNN, MSNBC, and all the yelpers that claim Obama won one more delegate.

9 more will be allocated by the delegates selected at the county level, in which Hillary is now favored.
8 more will be allocated by the party leaders, in which Hillary is now favored.

[Barack_America]

17. So you are denying that rural areas are weighted more than urban areas?

:shrug:

[Maribelle]

19. No. What I said has absolutely nothing to do with weighting.

I truly do not have a clue has to how the total number of delegates for each voting area was derived.

All I know for a fact is that Hillary has 582 more of those delegates than Obama has this morning.

[Maribelle]

13. By the way, if what you say is true about the card cutting ....

it would only be related to the delegates that were going to the county conventions. As of this morning with 98.07% of the counties reporting, Hillary has 582 more delegates than Obama has attending the county conventions on Feb 23rd.



So if what you say is true about the card cutting, Hillary would only have 581 more than Obama.

[ronnykmarshall]

18. THE DECK WAS MARKED!!!

:sarcasm: