CORRECTION: Barack Obama wins alleged NV GOP caucus

While working on a CityLife column to be published later this week your Gleaner asked the calculator a couple simple questions about the 2012 Nevada Republican Presidential Flop held over the weekend:

• The Secretary of State's office reports a tad more than 400,000 registered, active Republican voters in Nevada. Less than 33,000 of them showed up to caucus Saturday, which means for every 100 Nevadans who are so misguided and/or ill-informed that they actually register as Republicans, 92 of them stayed home. Apathy? On the contrary, that's aggressive rejection of the field.

• In their 2008 caucus (attendance: 120,000), Democrats registered nearly as many new voters on caucus day alone as showed up at Saturday's Republican fiasco-fest.

• For months (years) we've been hearing how how much supercalifragilistic work the Mittles campaign has done "on the ground" in Nevada. And sure enough, all that effort by Romney's magnificent organization culminated in turning out a stunning 4 (four) percent of registered, active Nevada Republicans on caucus/flop day.

Throw in a couple bonus statistics -- 100 percent of what Mitt Romney says is wrong and 0 percent of Americans want to have a beer with him -- and you could say that Barack Obama won the whole danged weekend. Except of course Madonna did.

Comments

[ColinFromLasVegas]

Enjoyed the article, Gleanster. But how DARE you tell the Nevada GOP the reality of this dog and pony show they just held?

THEY and THEY alone are the only ones allowed to tell people how it turned out.

Numbers don't mean anything. Facts don't neither.

JUST THE SPIN.

They'll jump up and down and scream that it was successful, it was a testament to how they want that evil socialist commie President Obama defeated and the resurgence of the NVGOP is now complete!

They tell their voters who won. Even if they can't count worth a crap. They decide who the nominee is. The voters aren't allowed to think. They are only needed for their vote. After that, they are rejected and can all be screwed senseless.

The modern day GOP can't deal with facts anymore. Because it don't tell them anything good. So, they spin it how they want. It has to be "Hannitized." The truth is not good? No big deal. Make something up. In the modern day GOP, lies are the truth and truth are lies. Information to them is silly putty...mold it however they want and present it to their voters.

[Observer]

You mentioned the Dems in 2008. That was a high-water mark. The voter registration edge of the Dems over the R's is now only about half of what it was back in 2008.

Partly, I think because a lot of Dem's were deeply disappointed by Obama in power (he talked a good game in the election campaign, but then afterwards...)

Also, in the economic bust, a lot of people moved out of state, including probably a disproportional amount of Democrats.

-Observer

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Top 10 reasons Nevada Republican caucus vote took days to count

1. Bain Capital outsourced Nevada GOP vote counting to Bangladesh

2. Radio Shack TRS80 used to tabulate votes broke down

3. We were busy playing craps at the casino and didn't think it really mattered that much

4. With the count stuck at 43% for so many hours, it gave us enough time for properly deciding which votes were sufficiently believable

5. The Nevada GOP liked all the media interest we got from our rigged 2008 GOP Convention

6. Sharron Angle insisted on seeing GOP chairwoman Amy Tarkanian's birth certificate

7. Sheldon Adelson's special private caucus could not find enough Republican Jewish voters

8. Media spies everywhere - took time to intimidate and evict them

9. Casino employees actually wanted to participate - we can make exceptions for the uber-religious but we've got to draw the line somewhere

10. Votes for "Willard Mittington Romney" were sometimes mistaken as ballot sabotage and placed in the Mickey Mouse / Dudley Do-Right bin

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