A friend attended the 2016 Democratic caucus here in Las Vegas and he said it was shitshow from start to finish. After the Iowa debacle, I can only hope that my fellow Nevadans have gotten their shit together. Got it all together. And put it in a backpack. All their shit. So it’s together.
Part of me hopes they didn’t so everyone switches to primaries next time.
We’ve only had them since 2008, it was part of Harry Reid’s plan to get in voting early, and then the Republican party followed.
SC.:smack:
I like SD.
Let’s keep the rape jokes out of this thread, shall we. 
New Hampshire was interesting, so was Iowa. North Carolina will be important (especially to Biden). I cannot imagine a less important event than the Nevada caucus.
Oh, almost everyone I’ve ever spoken with who’s participated in a caucus thinks they should switch to primaries. Yet somehow they persist.
More Harry Reid sounding off: “Harry Reid Says It’s Time to Kill Off the Iowa Caucus”.
The caucus is not representative of NV let alone the country.
It often favors the activist wing of the party who also happen to often be heavily involved party offices. Not just for the Dems, the Ron Paul people took over a few state parties for the Republicans and before that some of the evangelicals.
Sounds like there’s now concern that the software shadow made will not be able to integrate the early voting with the caucus results. They’re making it out like another Iowa if not worse.
The simplicity and planning of Iowa, but held in venues such as liquor stores and casinos. Sounds like it’s going to be great. (Maybe it was the Republican caucus in 2016 that had caucus sites in liquor stores, since their caucuses are simpler and don’t take up as much space, but I definitely remember seeing people lined up between the rows of bottles.)
Booze also explains a not-unsubstantial portion of the Trump election win.
[‘A complete disaster’: Fears grow over potential Nevada caucus malfunction
Volunteers complain of poor training for a vote-reporting system that was adopted on the fly.](https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/16/nevada-avoid-iowa-caucus-mess-115437) from Politico
This is not sounding good. Hopefully, things turn out better than predicted here.
We have a new poll and the leader is …
… Steyer.
I never whine about rigged polls, but this one is such an outlier. Nevada is impossible to poll anyway.
Who the fuck is Point Blank Political and why should I give them any credence?
There has been so much focus on Bloomberg that the other billionaire has flown under the radar. Isn’t he also doing well in South Carolina? He obviously can’t win the whole thing but he could muck up the results.
I wonder if the next time round it will be billionaires only in the primaries… Maybe Oprah versus Cuban?
This poll’s not on 538 (at the moment, at least), but a different poll is:
WPA Intelligence, rated B/C by 538, 413 LV, in the field Feb. 11-13:
Sanders 25
Biden 18
Warren 13
Steyer 11
Buttigieg 10
Klobuchar 10
Gabbard 0
No significant difference among the Warren/Steyer/Pete/Amy group.