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Dem Party Revises Statement on Delegates

By Jeralyn, Section Elections 2008
Posted on Sun Jan 20, 2008 at 09:05:00 AM EST
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Update: The Las Vegas Sun crunches the numbers.

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On the Nevada Democratic Party website today, there's a "clarification" of yesterday's statement about delegates. Today's statement:

Clarification** of Statement by Nevada Democratic Party Chair Jill Derby

(Las Vegas, NV) "The Nevada Democratic Party and its officials have taken great effort to maintain our neutrality in the presidential campaign and the integrity of our process. Today, two out of three Nevadans who caucused chose a Democrat instead of a Republican for president. That is an overwhelming majority vote for a new direction. Just like in Iowa, what was awarded today were delegates to the County Convention, of which Senator Clinton won the majority. No national convention delegates were awarded. That said, if the delegate preferences remain unchanged between now and April 2008, the calculations of national convention delegates being circulated by the Associated Press are correct. We look forward to our county and state conventions where we will choose the delegates for the nominee that Nevadans support."

Yesterday's statement (and background): [More]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Kirsten Searer
Saturday, January 19, 2008

Statement by Nevada Democratic Party Chair Jill Derby

Regarding the Nevada Caucus
(Las Vegas, NV)

“Today, two out of three Nevadans who caucused chose a Democrat instead of a Republican for president. That is an overwhelming majority vote for a new direction. Just like in Iowa what was awarded today were delegates to the County Convention. No national convention delegates were awarded. The calculations of national convention delegates being circulated are based upon an assumption that delegate preferences will remain the same between now and April 2008. We look forward to our county and state conventions where we will choose the delegates for the nominee that Nevadans support.”

I hope that clears it up.

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    Dem Party Revises Statement on Delegates | 4 comments (4 topical)

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    Here's an allocation explanation - (none / 0) (#1)
    by ding7777 on Sun Jan 20, 2008 at 11:09:15 AM EST
    Nine of the 25 are elected by vote of all the state delegates. Proportionate to their precinct delegates statewide, Clinton would get 5 of those, Obama 4.

    The other 16 are apportioned to Nevada's three congressional districts. (continued)
    I forgot to mention where Obama picked up (none / 0) (#2)
    by ding7777 on Sun Jan 20, 2008 at 11:19:01 AM EST
    his "winning" delegates.  Obama earned 4 delegates to Hillary's 2 in Congressional District 2 - a heavily Republican district

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    Cleared Up! (none / 0) (#3)
    by converse on Sun Jan 20, 2008 at 11:20:24 AM EST
    "the calculations of national convention delegates being circulated by the Associated Press are corret."

    AP says: Obama-13, Clinton-12

    Obama wins.

    Do you see the second statement as (none / 0) (#4)
    by oculus on Sun Jan 20, 2008 at 12:08:56 PM EST
    a criticism of Jill Edwards perhaps speaking out a bit too soon?

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