Nevada caucus calamity worries GOP

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http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/nevada-caucuses-republicans-219594


Nevada caucus calamity worries GOP

The last two Republican caucuses didn't go so well in Nevada. The next one could be rocky, too.

By Elena Schneider

02/21/16 02:43 PM EST
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Nevada Republican party staffers have been hosting caucus training sessions for months. Republican campaign volunteers have been knocking on doors and calling voters since last summer. The candidates themselves have been collecting endorsements and holding events across the state since last spring.

Yet on the eve of Tuesday evening’s GOP caucus, no one has a firm sense of who’s winning here. And worse, there’s an undercurrent of nervousness about the prospect of a caucus calamity.

"It’s true, the smartest people just don’t know what’s going to happen here,” said Pete Ernaut, a Republican consultant who is unaffiliated with a presidential campaign. “Our greatest strength is our greatest weakness. Nevada loves to be independent, but that can also get in the way of being organized and coalesced around an important event, so it doesn’t surprise me at all."

Republican campaigns and state operatives point to a number of factors creating the cloud of confusion: a cash-poor state party in disarray, a public unaccustomed to the caucus process and a state that’s notoriously difficult to poll. Nevada doesn’t have a lot of experience running caucuses – the state picked up its first-in-the-West status in 2008, but it has yet to run smoothly and some campaigns are bracing for possible chaos again.

“I think all campaigns have some concerns. The caucus process is messy and there will inevitably be problems,” said a Republican presidential operative working in Nevada who was granted anonymity to speak candidly. “But the RNC is helping, and I think the state and county parties are much better organized than they have been previously. [But] I don’t think anyone thinks this will go off without some problems at some level. It is the nature of a caucus, but we all expect this to go more smoothly than it has previously.”

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[R4 TrumPence]

4 years ago it was total disaster.  we were herded like sheep from room to room and finally ended up in school cafeteria, where we sat for over an hour, while they were still letting people in after the cut off time.
we were put into groups depending on your precinct.
There was no discussion because no one knew what was going on.
Only the precinct captains knew that you could talk abt your candidate.
I watched around the room, and all the captains were Mitt people, in Mitt tshirts.  we werent supposed wear shirts,buttons etc for specific candidates

when they handed out the ballots, they were little blue ,what looked like post it notes. you wrote your candidate, folded the little paper and put it a fish bowl, no joke!
 Most people voted and left before it was finished.

I watched them count the votes put the tally on an "Official"paper, then threw away the little pieces of blue paper! 

[EdinVA]

4 years ago it was total disaster.  we were herded like sheep from room to room and finally ended up in school cafeteria, where we sat for over an hour, while they were still letting people in after the cut off time.
we were put into groups depending on your precinct.
There was no discussion because no one knew what was going on.
Only the precinct captains knew that you could talk abt your candidate.
I watched around the room, and all the captains were Mitt people, in Mitt tshirts.  we werent supposed wear shirts,buttons etc for specific candidates

when they handed out the ballots, they were little blue ,what looked like post it notes. you wrote your candidate, folded the little paper and put it a fish bowl, no joke!
 Most people voted and left before it was finished.

I watched them count the votes put the tally on an "Official"paper, then threw away the little pieces of blue paper! 

That must be where the democrats learned how to run a caucus... were there any coin tosses?

[R4 TrumPence]

That must be where the democrats learned how to run a caucus... were there any coin tosses?

lol not that i saw