Sanders gets some extra delegates in Nevada after a real hassle it seems. Impossible to get a proper read on everything that went down, but it seems like there's been some pretty hardball tactics from both sides, and both sides are blaming the other for cheating.
Here's the confusing version:
http://usuncut.com/politics/bernie-w...cratic-caucus/
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I think the most simple-to-understand version is at Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/co...as_won_nevada/
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He has gotten 2 delegates to flip (so 18-17 currently), with 2 more likely to flip at the state conventions (because of today's results) which would make it 16-19 in Sanders favor.
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No, it gets crazier. Nevada uses a crazy system. 23 delegates are locked by congressional districts. Todays vote only had an impact on the remaining 12 delegates, but not really. It is at the state convention next month when these delelgates are selected. Today's events just means that if these numbers end up being the same percentage at the state convention, and as we have seen nothing is a given, then Bernie would get 7 of those 12 delegates. So most likely result in the end will be Hillary 18 Bernie 17 when it is all said and done.
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So...I'll give this a go. Unlike a normal primary, which works like any old vote (and in the case of the President, chooses each party's preference of representative at the state level), a caucus is a relic of the pre-telegraph era. Essentially, the first vote that was widely reported upon was round 1, the most local caucus where support was shown for each candidate and people were chosen in the same proportion to report to county-level events that occurred today.
Since these people have lives and jobs (and some didn't even know they had to do more later on), alternate delegates are allowed into the system. And to top it all off, none of the delegates are even required to vote for the candidate they originally supported in the first round!
There's even another round after this. If it sounds ridiculous -- I've described it well.
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