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[Loud Whispers]

No lie, I would give a full half of my material wealth to see an openly polyamorous president, all other things being equal. I would campaign for clinton if she stood up and claimed bernie and bill on stage.

Why only two? Why not full Ottoman harem?

[Frumple]

Baby steps, LW. You can only ask for so much from the american polity.

[mainiac]

http://www.theonion.com/article/obama-compiles-shortlist-gay-transsexual-abortion--52361

[Loud Whispers]

http://graphics.latimes.com/election-2016-nevada-results/

17 minutes get hype

[mainiac]

LA times thinks Bernie will do well in the rural parts, I thought that Vegas and Reno is where he was hoping to
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run the tables.

[RedKing]

Lot of anecdotes of casino workers having to leave without caucusing because the casinos are only giving them a 90 window on their lunch break to vote.

Gee, can't imagine who the business interests would be supporting in this primary.

EDIT: The exit polling is still sparse, but so far Sanders is doing even better with Latinos (54%) than he is with white people (52%). Given that Nevada is nearly 20% Hispanic and only 10% black, that bodes well for him.

[Sheb]

I still don't get why states still have caucuses instead of primaries.

[mainiac]

And to make it more confusing Nevada switched to a caucus.

[RedKing]

I still don't get why states still have caucuses instead of primaries.

As always, the answer is....Cause 'Murrica, that's why!
(i.e. "fuck if I know")



EDIT: Meanwhile in SC, a Cruz-affiliated PAC is putting out robo-calls attacking Trump and Nikki Haley (and by extension, Rubio) for supporting taking down the Confederate flag. And there's some hubbub in the right-wing blogo/twittersphere that Cruz (or someone supporting him) is putting out robocalls claiming that Marco Rubio is dropping out. I do hope there's an investigation, and if substantiated, Raphael gets his ass biatch-slapped all the way back to Texas.

EDIT#2: Of course, it's entirely possible that this latest robocall "dirty trick" is in fact a dirty trick fabricated by anti-Cruz elements in the right-wing blogosphere. Metafuckery, if you will.

[Frumple]

Yeah, I rather imagine most of the states with caucuses don't get why they still have caucuses, too. I'd wager it's at least 70% due to the word sounding fancier.

[smjjames]

I wonder whose bright idea it was to do the caucus in the middle of the day rather than in the evening when most people would be off work.

[mainiac]

It's an age old question.  In general the most affluent people have the most stable schedules.

[smjjames]

I still don't get why states still have caucuses instead of primaries.

As always, the answer is....Cause 'Murrica, that's why!
(i.e. "fuck if I know")



EDIT: Meanwhile in SC, a Cruz-affiliated PAC is putting out robo-calls attacking Trump and Nikki Haley (and by extension, Rubio) for supporting taking down the Confederate flag. And there's some hubbub in the right-wing blogo/twittersphere that Cruz (or someone supporting him) is putting out robocalls claiming that Marco Rubio is dropping out. I do hope there's an investigation, and if substantiated, Raphael gets his ass biatch-slapped all the way back to Texas.

Pfft, Rubio dropping out is so not believable. It's probably someone who thought it was okay to pull the same kind of stunt because Cruz did it already.

Even if it isn't from Cruzs campaign, it's only going to reinforce the dirty liar rhetoric.

[RedKing]

It's Nevada; most people there work night shifts.

538 just discussed that. Actually it's about the same, day or night. It's not like people ain't gambling at 11am.

First results are in!

Clinton 421
Sanders 418
Uncommitted 3

[Frumple]

I wonder whose bright idea it was to do the caucus in the middle of the day rather than in the evening when most people would be off work.

It was the cousin of whatever idiot decided voting days weren't going to be national holidays.