I had the same question. It looks like 22 delegates are decided based on the election and the others are “party leaders” and “bonus delegates” (http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P16/R-Alloc.phtml). What that means, practically speaking, I couldn’t tell you.
The 30 are straight proportional in Nevada, and the delegate count I’m seeing is:
14 Trump, 7 Rubio, 6 Cruz, 2 Carson, 1 Kasich
The RNC determines how many total delegates Nevada gets based on a “baseline” that is essentially tied to how many electoral votes a state gets in the electoral college. So you get 5 per Senator (so every State gets 10 base delegates regardless of population) and 3 per congressional district. Then you also get 3 per state for “party leaders”, these delegates are the “national committeeman, the national committee woman, and the chairman of the jurisdiction’s Republican Party.” Note that these are not akin to superdelegates–they are pledged delegates, but they are always those three state party officials. This is largely a mechanism to guarantee these individuals a delegate spot at the convention, I believe a few election cycles ago they were “unpledged” but they’ve been pledged to the state delegate allocation process (in all states) I believe since 2012 at least. So that brings us to 25 for Nevada’s base (10 + (3 x 4) + 3)
Then there’s bonus delegates you can accrue, through a formula designed to reward states that support Republicans:
1 Bonus Delegate for each Republican U.S. Senator elected in the state in the last 6 years = 1 bonus for Nevada (Senator Heller)
1 Bonus Delegate for having a Republican Governor elected since 2012 = 1 bonus for Nevada (Governor Sandoval)
1 Bonus Delegate if your U.S. House Delegation is > 50% Republican, = 1 bonus for Nevada (3/4 Congressmen are GOP)
1 Bonus Delegate for Controlling at least 1 chamber in the state legislature = 1 bonus for Nevada (they control both chambers)
1 Bonus Delegate for Controlling both chambers = 1 bonus for Nevada (they control both chambers)
x Bonus based on a mathematical formula based on your electoral vote and what number of them went to a Republican Presidential candidate in 2012 = 0 since NV went for Obama in the electoral college in 2012
Now for how these 30 delegates are apportioned to the candidates, this site tries to explain it, and they also explain that technically the rules are self-contradictory, so it isn’t (I believe) 100% clear which mechanism is actually being used:
So to try and sort out these contradictory rules, this site lists the two different ways you could calculate it:
So note that means there is a minimum 3.33% vote cutoff to get any delegates. FWIW both interpretations produce the same result in this case, but they could’ve produced different ones. They explain the math for Interpretation B here:
Seems they could simplify and just say you get 1 delegate for each chamber of the state legislature controlled.
The math seems to be quite reasonable and fair the way it is done. Round down for each case and then allocate the extras based on who got rounded down the most.
Yeah, for a proportional system it seems a logical way to apportion delegates. As for the legislative chamber rules, I found it weird too that it isn’t just worded as “1 per each chamber.” I wonder if this was literally done to accommodate Nebraska? Which is the only state with a unicameral legislature? So they could still get 2 bonus points despite only having one chamber.
There seems to be controversy about whether or not poll volunteers are supposed to show impartiality. Aren’t there published rules?
And it sounds like Trump may have had a well-organized cheating operation. Is that a surprise? Is it good news to those worried Trump is not competent to govern? :rolleyes:
I am under the impression that the three party leaders are unpledged in some states and pledged in others.
Note that the bonus for Senators is limited to 2 - it is possible to have more if, for example, both Senators six years ago were Republican, and both were replaced by other Republicans.
Also, the “red state bonus” is (4 1/2 + 60% of the state’s Electoral Votes), rounded up.
As for distributing delegates, the way I read the rules is, round all delegate numbers down, then if there are delegates remaining, give one each to the candidate(s) with the largest “fraction of a delegate”, except that if a candidate’s unrounded number is less than 1, then that candidate gets zero.
I think almost all of them they’re pledged, this tracker seems to show Colorado (37), Wyoming (29), Guam (9), American Samoa (9), North Dakota (28) have 100% unpledged delegates (so none of their delegates vote based on a primary or caucus process.) Pennsylvania (54/71) and U.S. Virgin Islands (3/9) have a partial unpledged contingent.
So there are 169 total unpledged.
All of this is actually covered in the link in my prior post.
*snip. So say I am a national committeeman in Nevada. Do I get to vote for my personal choice of candidate or must I vote for whoever I get assigned by the caucus results?
I just tried to borrow this e-book from my local library. All copies are checked out (they don’t say how many they have), but I’m first in line to get one.
We see that so far there’s not a huge groundswell of interest in the book. But prior to this election season I wonder when was the last time somebody checked out an 80(!) year old novel?