Tuesday, February 23 Nevada caucus

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2 Days we see it again.

Tuesday, February 23

Nevada caucus (R) (http://www.uspresidentialelectionnews.com/2016-presidential-primary-schedule-calendar/2016-nevada-caucus/)
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Just so I remember to bump this later tomorrow.

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POLITICO (http://www.politico.com/2016-election/results/map/president/nevada)

Decision Desk (http://www.decisiondeskhq.com/nevada-democratic-caucus/)

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Don't forget to bump it if I am working.

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Get a cup of coffee

The Democratic caucuses met Saturday afternoon and were done early; the Associated Press called the race for Hillary Clinton at 2:15 pm local time, 5:15 on the East Coast. In South Carolina on Saturday, AP called the Republican primary for Donald Trump at 7:29 Eastern time.

On Tuesday, the caucuses begin between 5 and 7 p.m. local time (depending on the county), and the Nevada Republican Party says (http://nebula.wsimg.com/ddf89ed4e331bc633930a832a0c220b2?AccessKeyId=D3766 6C73E7F80F084C6&disposition=0&alloworigin=1): "All caucuses end at 9:00 PT. This means we won't expect results to start coming in until after 9:00 PM (or midnight for those of you on the east coast.)" So it will be Wednesday in a big chunk of the country before we know who won on Tuesday.

Those of us with nationwide print deadlines are very sad.
Caucus and a vote

Unlike the Democrats, the Republican caucuses are organized around a secret-ballot presidential preference vote. While the caucuses still select delegates to go to county conventions and contend for tickets to the Republican National Convention, the 30 Nevada delegates that go to Cleveland will be awarded to candidates based on the outcome of the preference poll.

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4.5 hours EST? Hows that work?

[midnight rambler]

http://www.decisiondeskhq.com/nevada-republican-caucus/

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I see Cruz shit everywhere, no Trump, no nothing else. Yeastern TN we will see how it goes. If it dont go
trump I will move... serious.

[midnight rambler]

http://www.politico.com/2016-election/results/map/president/nevada

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Caucuses close in half an hour I believe, not sure how long it will take to start getting results in.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/02/23/donald-trump-is-on-course-to-win-the-1237-delegates-he-needs-to-be-the-gop-nominee/

Donald Trump is on course to win the 1,237 delegates he needs to be the GOP nominee

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(https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/02/23/donald-trump-is-on-course-to-win-the-1237-delegates-he-needs-to-be-the-gop-nominee/#)
By Chris Cillizza (http://www.washingtonpost.com/people/chris-cillizza) February 23 at 9:56 AM

Presidential politics is, at its core, all about math. Nowhere is that more true than in the fight for delegates to this summer’s Republican National Convention. And, the delegate math is close to conclusive: Donald Trump will be extremely close to the 1,237 delegates he needs to formally claim the party’s nomination by the end of the primary process.

Let’s do the math — or, rather, let’s do the math forwarded to me by a Republican number-cruncher who counts himself as a card-carrying member of the Republican establishment but who also regards Trump’s nomination as nearly inevitable. (Sidenote: These are back-of-the-envelope calculations. Each state allocates delegates differently and so in order to understand the broad sweep of where the delegate count will end up, you have to make some rough assumptions. If you want detailed analysis of how each state does it, check out the invaluable FHQ site (http://frontloading.blogspot.com/p/2016-republican-delegate-allocation-by.html).)

Through three states, Trump has 67 delegates as compared to 11 for Ted Cruz, 10 for Marco Rubio, five for John Kasich and three for Ben Carson. The Nevada Republican caucuses (https://www.washingtonpost.com/2016-election-results/nevada/) will give out 30 delegates on a proportional basis tonight; FHQ’s Josh Putnam estimated in December that Trump would win 12 delegates, but he now seems likely to perhaps claim a few more than that.

That’s our starting point.

The biggest chunk of delegates, approximately 55 percent (1,360 delegates) are doled out proportionally. Assuming that past is prologue, let’s give Trump 30 percent of these delegates, which totals 408.

Sixteen percent of the delegates will be doled out on a winner-take-all basis, meaning that if you win the state you win all of its delegates. The two biggest prizes in the winner-take-all states, which, under Republican National Committee rules, can’t hold a presidential vote until March 15, are Ohio and Florida. The former allocates 66 delegates, the latter 99 (https://gop.com/2016-gophq/event_schedule/?schedule_type=primary). Connecticut, which allocates 25 delegates, is a somewhat special case, but, for the moment, let’s leave it in winner-take-all. (More on Connecticut below.) Given Trump’s dominance in polling in these winner-take-all states, give him all 396 delegates available.

There are 618 delegates (25 percent of the total) given out in some sort of hybrid process — a combination of winner-take-all and proportional allocation. Give Trump half of the winner-take-all and 30 percent of the proportionals. (Like we said, this is a rough calculation.) That’s 412 delegates.

Another 4 percent of delegates are allocated by conventions and caucuses. Again, assume Trump gets 30 percent, which makes for 30 more delegates. Seven percent of delegates are RNC members. It’s hard to imagine Trump winning any of these. So, zero in that category.

Add it all up and you have Trump at 1,246 delegates — or nine more than he would need to be the party’s official nominee at the party convention in Cleveland in July.

Now, I said we’d get back to Connecticut. My home state is winner-take-all IF the winner gets over 50 percent of the vote. If not, the delegates are awarded winner-take-all by congressional district with the at-large delegates being allocated proportionally to any candidate who gets more than 20 percent of the statewide vote. If Trump can’t get to 50 statewide, he doesn’t take all 25 delegates and that could mean he falls slightly short of the 1,237 he needs nationally.

Then there is the matter of Ohio. Ohio is winner-take-all, as I mentioned above, but is made more complicated for Trump because Kasich, the Republican governor of the state, is still in the race. A Quinnipiac University poll out Tuesday morning (http://www.quinnipiac.edu/news-and-events/quinnipiac-university-poll/ohio/release-detail?ReleaseID=2325) shows Trump at 31 percent in the state with Kasich close behind at 26 percent. It’s not clear whether Kasich can beat Trump in the Buckeye State or if he will be able to stay in the race all the way until March 15 when Ohio voters go to the polls. But, if Kasich could beat Trump in Ohio, you subtract 66 delegates from Trump’s 1,246 — leaving him at 1,180, and just short of the nomination.

For all the talk about Rubio vs. Cruz and who might be the stronger candidate in a one-on-one against Trump, it’s worth noting that the cake is very, very close to being baked for Trump on the delegate math. Something cataclysmic is going to have to happen — and soon — to keep Trump from being over or very close to the 1,237 delegates he needs to be the party’s nominee when these primaries end on June 7.

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Can't edit my other post anymore, but here's the live stream. I assume it will be from Trump tower.

LIVE Stream: Donald Trump Nevada Watch Party (2-23-16) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdA4ru5Z1aI)

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Results are starting to roll in at decision desk.

http://www.decisiondeskhq.com/nevada-republican-caucus/

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And....Trump wins Nevada.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/daae1067b85545bb953cf57fc662f3aa/donald-trump-wins-nevada-republican-presidential-caucuses

Called 2 minutes after the caucuses close.

[Joshua01]

And....Trump wins Nevada.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/daae1067b85545bb953cf57fc662f3aa/donald-trump-wins-nevada-republican-presidential-caucuses

Called 2 minutes after the caucuses close.

Yeah, I couldn't believe that!

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Victory speech


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdA4ru5Z1aI

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Trump 2.0

He is so full of himself it is an enjoyment to watch. Establishment = zero.

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BOOM, winning the Hispanic voters.

Up yours FOX

https://i.imgur.com/j3sAt17.jpg

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It's a total blowout guys.

He's sitting at 47% and the numbers just keep going up. Only 19% of the vote has been counted.

[Shami-Amourae]

http://i.imgur.com/rSjSFm2.jpg



http://i.imgur.com/JZ2r9ya.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Et6M1FU.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/wSdDN0D.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/EerQGWy.png

http://i.imgur.com/RF6ILb8.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/uXIzeaY.png

[Ares]

I noticed that picture lastnight, and yeah their hands seem a little too dark to be "white men".

[mick silver]

https://gsa-cmp-fileupload.s3.amazonaws.com/president-poster.png (http://publications.usa.gov/USAPubs.php?PubID=6099)