2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumRalston Reports: 'Reid-Culinary' Bond won Nevada for Clinton
http://www.rgj.com/story/news/politics/2016/02/20/ralston-reports-harry-reid-culinary-union-bond-won-nevada-caucus-hillary-clinton/80685878/Interesting story. After months and months of organizing, what might have tipped the scales, or at least made it much of a larger win than it would have been... was Harry Reid.
But the caucus, which Clinton won by about 5 percentage points, also cemented Prince Harry as a man Machiavelli would have bowed to, a man who with one eye who still sees the field better and is still more dangerous, effective and cunning as any pol the state (the country?) has ever seen. Clinton may not have won Nevada if Reid had not interceded last week when the man feigning neutrality saw what everyone in the Democratic elite saw: Sanders erasing a once mountainous lead and on the verge of perhaps winning Nevada and rendering inoperative the Hillary is more electable argument.
The story of the Nevada caucus is that a lame-duck senator and a self-neutered union conspired to revive the Clinton campaign in a remarkable bit of backroom maneuvering that helped Madame Secretary crush Sanders in Clark County, the key to winning almost any statewide election. Combined with a Clinton machine, erected last spring and looking invincible, that suddenly had to scrape the rust off its gears and turn out her voters, Caucus Day also was a remarkable story of an indomitable candidate, her nonpareil Nevada staff and a ragtag but committed Sanders operation that made them sweat.
Worth a read.
Jackilope
(819 posts)I cannot believe the enablers here for a rigged and corrupt system.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)work'. Then, others proclaiming that he should have learned from Obama, and won undemocratically, by winning fewer votes, but more delegates.
And I still say I'm happy with what he DID manage to do, DEMOCRATICALLY, by winning as many votes as he could in the face of entrenched machinery working on behalf of his opponent.
And I want him to continue to win as many votes as possible, and hope it will be enough in the end. This may NOT be the election cycle in which the Party finally is weak enough to take back leadership from the old school Republicans who have taken it over, but we'll damn well try as hard as we can. And try to do it aboveboard, without depending on undemocratic quirks of delegate allocation.
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)Democratic leader helps to elect another Democratic leader he supports by using his resources and connections he has developed over the years in his home state.
Yes...?
But still caucuses suck (I'm sticking with that).