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Just 17% of Nevada Democrats voted VIDEO (Original Post) Iwillnevergiveup Feb 2016 OP
So the question I have is, Why so low? n2doc Feb 2016 #1
Yet the youth vote was up 5% as compared to 2008 Ichingcarpenter Feb 2016 #3
There was also the complaint about it being on Saturday, Jewish Sabbath Jarqui Feb 2016 #2
Only 80,000....!!! SoapBox Feb 2016 #6
And Nevada has 60K Jews TexasBushwhacker Feb 2016 #8
That is just pathetic. People just struggle to make a living - perfect drone army for the 1%! thereismore Feb 2016 #4
I'm waiting for Iwillnevergiveup Feb 2016 #5
"Low turnout/transient population make Nevada caucuses unpredictable" Donkees Feb 2016 #7

n2doc

(47,953 posts)
1. So the question I have is, Why so low?
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 03:02 PM
Feb 2016

We did much better in 2008. It isn't like there were more voters for Obama and not HRC, since he lost by more of a margin than Bernie did. Was something different this time around in how the caucuses were held? Did all of the negative crap drive both sides down?

So far the repubs are kicking butt in terms of turnout compared to our side. This does not bode well.

Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)
3. Yet the youth vote was up 5% as compared to 2008
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 03:20 PM
Feb 2016

That is why we are doing so well...... Sanders got 8 out every 10 votes..... thank you young people you get it and Hillary doesn't

Bernie or Bust

Jarqui

(10,126 posts)
2. There was also the complaint about it being on Saturday, Jewish Sabbath
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 03:04 PM
Feb 2016

which is apparently why the GOP moved their date.

According to a video produced by the media group NowThis, only 80,000 of Nevada’s 471,342 registered Democrats voted Saturday in the state’s caucus. Many who wanted to vote reportedly could not take time off from work. This suggests that those voters work in the lower ranks—meaning they might favor Bernie Sanders’ policy proposals and would have voted for him if they could have


I wonder if this was an accident or something the DNC did.

SoapBox

(18,791 posts)
6. Only 80,000....!!!
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 03:45 PM
Feb 2016

That is pathetic.

And one would think that Hill got millions of votes.

This simply cannot be representative of the people.

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