I was there: Sanders likely flips 2 delegates & Still Likely to Lose in Nevada (Main Story) [View all]

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Jon Ralston (his Twitter feed if you're interested) is the biggest political reporter here in my hometown of Las Vegas. He's one of those rare reporters who tends to keep it fairly middle of the road and non-partisan. Before you dive into the juicy part, here's a bit of backstory about what went down before the convention even got started:

Bernie vs. Hillary boils over in Nevada before Clark convention

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The board met last night and the situation boiled over with the credentials chief, longtime activist Christine Kramar, refusing to leave the room. Here's part of what happened, another reminder that these things are run by volunteers and can be, ahem, messy Kramar had not been removed as of Saturday morning, and a meeting was scheduled between Sanders and Clinton reps to try to resolve the issue.

Kramar is accused of releasing confidential Clinton information to the Bernie Sanders campaign, as you can see from the letter (below), written by nationally known election lawyer Marc Elias.

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MORE HERE
More details and a separate discussion just for this part of the story: http://www.democraticunderground.com/110789068

Despite all the hype from the Berniebots (and their putting down the Hillbots), it looks like Nevada is still going to be a Hillary Clinton win -- albeit uncomfortably close -- going into the state convention in May. I was there as a Hillary delegate, and there was some shady events going on... I can talk more about those down thread if anyone is interested. The good news is that my wife and I were selected as delegates to the state convention where we'll once more be proud to say, "#ImWithHer".

One last bit of other good news... One of the Clark County Convention officials -- Clark County is where Las Vegas is located in Nevada -- asked the audience by round of applause if they would support whoever was the Democratic nominee. The crowd erupted in an ear shattering and thunderous collection of whistles, chants like "HELL YES!", "Unite Blue", and a few scatterings of "Bernie!" and "Hillary!".

Sanders likely flips two delegates after dominating Clark convention

Despite losing the state on Feb. 20 in the caucus, Bernie Sanders' campaign swarmed the Clark County caucus and probably flipped two delegates from Hillary Clinton's camp.

Clinton was presumed to have a 20-15 delegate edge after the caucus based on her 5 percentage point win in the caucuses. But because the caucus process allows some delegates to be unbound, 12 of those were up for grabs at the 17 county conventions Saturday. Sanders had 600 more delegates in Clark on Saturday despite losing the state's most populous county by nearly 10 percentage points.

That is expected to switch two delegates to Sanders, giving Clinton an 18-17 lead in Nevada, but that is still pending the results of the state convention next month when those 12 slots could again change. (Sanders also dominated in Washoe and did well elsewhere.) Ah, the caucus process.

Here are today's results, via the state party: MORE AT LINK

Hillary's Press Secretary, @BrianEFallon, had the following to say on Twitter:

Among grave issues affecting County convention results in NV: notice went out to delegates wrongly saying they didn't need to show up today

Number of irregularities in NV today that were very troubling but we dont expect outcome to alter fact that Clinton has more NV delegates