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Relive the magic of the GOP primary so far with this gallery of images from the Election 2012 Flickr group.
Nevada to release caucus results via Twitter
A nice rundown of what to expect in Nevada via the Las Vegas Review-Journal:
The public will have an easy time following results of Nevada’s caucus on computers and cellphones if they have a Twitter account and follow @nvgop — the state party’s handle.“We believe it’ll be the fastest results coming out of a caucus in history,” said public relations consultant Jim Anderson in a conference call announcing the GOP-Twitter partnership.
Google will show the mapped precinct results from each of the state’s 17 counties on the Nevada Republican Party website at www.nevadagop.org/ as they’re reported.
Final results from 16 of Nevada’s counties will start being released at 5 p.m., two hours after the caucus meetings are scheduled to end. The state party must certify the results first.
The outcome of the caucus meetings in Clark County, where 60 percent of the state’s Republicans live, will be delayed for several hours. Most Clark County caucus-goers will start meeting at 9 a.m. and finish a few hours later. But the county is holding a special 7 p.m. post-sundown caucus to accommodate observant Jews and Seventh-day Adventists.
Clark County results won’t be released until after the special caucus, the party said. “We should have it wrapped up in an hour or half an hour,” said David Gallagher, executive director of the state GOP.
The party expects only a few hundred Republicans to attend the special caucus and a total of 50,000 to 60,000 to participate statewide. Four years ago, 44,000 attended the party meetings.
While others woo Florida, Ron Paul’s strategy is to rack up delegates in February:
Paul didn’t win any of the first three nominating contests, and he plans to largely ignore Florida’s winner-take-all primary on Tuesday in favor of focusing on states that hold caucuses, like Nevada, Maine and Minnesota. By picking up delegates in nearly every state, Paul and his supporters could potentially wreak havoc at the Republican nominating convention this August.
“We’re going to be in until it’s mathematically impossible for us to win,” Gary Howard, a spokesman for Paul, told Yahoo News in the spin room after a debate last week in Charleston, S.C. “It’s going to be a long time.”
The magic number necessary for a candidate to win the nomination is 1,144 delegates—a majority of the 2,286 delegates who will be voting at the convention, which will be held from Aug. 27 to Aug. 30 in Tampa, Fla.
Paul’s team says they’re running to win, not to influence the platform or the selection of the party’s vice presidential nominee at the convention.
“Absolutely,” we will be at the convention, campaign manager Jesse Benton told Yahoo News. “We have a comprehensive plan to win 1,144 delegates. We’re going to scrap all the way.”
The entire piece is worth your time.
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