Ralston in NV: Team Bernie put out an inaccurate video about how caucus works. Dems fretting

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Jon Ralston ‏@RalstonReports 5h5 hours ago
Team Bernie put out video, which is inaccurate about how caucus works. Dems now fretting about Sanders folks.

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Jon Ralston ‏@RalstonReports 5h5 hours ago
One key Democratic official told me what the party fears -- problems a la Iowa.




Jon Ralston ‏@RalstonReports 5h5 hours ago
Possible caucus problems cause Dems to send this memo to campaigns. I'm told this is a Team Bernie issue.

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1. kick

[Perogie]

2. caucuses are confusion

I went to 4 different websites. Two used the same information as Bernie that viability is 15%. Two used the information that had different formulas depending on delegates.


Maybe Nevada should stop using a confusing voting process for their Primary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_caucuses
http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P16/D-Math.phtml

[Lucinda]

3. TY!

[Spazito]

4. Wow...

that strikes me as unethical....to say the least.

[nichomachus]

7. Well, Hillary supporters would know about unethical. Nt

[Spazito]

8. One would think supporters of Bernie Sanders would know...

even more given ethics and principles are his cornerstones so I've been told.

[mhatrw]

10. Please explain how this is "unethical"?

It is an oversimplification. But how is it unethical?

[firebrand80]

5. Misinformation = Confusion = Faux Outrage =

Fundraising Dollars

[mhatrw]

11. How is there going to be faux outrage?

About what?

[firebrand80]

12. Same thing that happened after IA nt

[mhatrw]

13. The outrage in Iowa was because of delegates that were not counted properly

and an Iowan Democratic party led by a Hillary cheerleader that refused to do a transparent audit of the primary results.

[hoosierlib]

6. Seems like a non-issue...

Very unlikely either candidate will be at risk of not being viable in most precincts...

[mhatrw]

9. This video is only "inaccurate" for precincts with only 1 to 3 awarded delegates.

And with only 2 candidates running, the threshold of viability for these small precincts really doesn't matter anyway.

1 delegate precincts = delegate goes to whoever have the most votes

2 delegate precincts = you need 25%+ of the vote to be viable

3 delegate precincts = you need 16.7%+ of the vote to be viable

all other precincts = you need 15%+ of the vote

With only 2 candidates, these differences don't matter. What does it matter if you mistakenly think your group is viable if you clearly do not have a high enough percentage of caucus goers to deserve a delegate?

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