Reply #10: Hillary won in a coin toss in the Nebraska caucuses (honest!) [View All]

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RED CLOUD — A coin toss — yes, a coin toss — decided what may have been the state's closest caucus.

Webster County Democrats were split into five precincts but met in a single location at Red Cloud.

Two precincts favored Hillary Clinton and two backed Barack Obama. In the fifth, 15 caucusgoers chose Clinton and 15 chose Obama.

County party officials, unsure how to award the precinct's final and decisive county party convention delegate, dug into caucus rules to resolve the deadlock.

Which is how Chuck Blackstone, the county chairman, came to toss a quarter into the air in front of 102 party faithful.

Heads for Hillary, tails for Barack.

Hillary it was.

Coin tosses are, frankly, used frequently to decide deadlocked contests. Google it.