{"id":23364,"date":"2016-02-23T05:45:02","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T10:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/?p=23364"},"modified":"2016-02-22T21:34:03","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T02:34:03","slug":"tonight-the-republicans-caucus-in-nevada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2016\/02\/tonight-the-republicans-caucus-in-nevada\/","title":{"rendered":"Tonight the Republicans caucus in Nevada"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

The Democratic caucus in Nevada was last Saturday. \u00a0Nevada Republicans caucus tonight. \u00a0Trump, being a Las Vegas kind of guy, is expected to win, but second place could help Rubio or Cruz.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll try to post the results here, if they are available before it gets too late. \u00a0The thing is, the Republican party in Nevada is notoriously poorly organized and ill-funded, and its previous caucuses since they started in 2008 have been chaotic. \u00a0So things could get interesting, in a bad way. \u00a0Details after the jump.<\/p>\n

From Elena Schneider,\u00a0Nevada caucus calamity worries GOP<\/a>, Politico:<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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Yet on the eve of Tuesday evening\u2019s GOP caucus, no one has a firm sense of who\u2019s winning here. And worse, there\u2019s an undercurrent of nervousness about the prospect of a caucus calamity.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s true, the smartest people just don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen here,\u201d said Pete Ernaut, a Republican consultant who signed on with Marco Rubio on Sunday night. \u201cOur 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\u2019t surprise me at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u2019s notoriously difficult to poll. Nevada doesn\u2019t have a lot of experience running caucuses \u2014 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think all campaigns have some concerns. The caucus process is messy, and there will inevitably be problems,\u201d said a Republican presidential operative working in Nevada who was granted anonymity to speak candidly. \u201cBut the [Republican National Committee] is helping, and I think the state and county parties are much better organized than they have been previously. [But] I don\u2019t 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

[Keep reading. . .]<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

See also\u00a0Sabotage and High-Card Draws: \u00a0Why the Nevada Caucuses Will Get Weird<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/blockquote><\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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