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  • 2016-04-09 (xsd:date)
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  • Bernie Sanders Won Nevada? (de)
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  • On 20 February 2016, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was declared the winner of Nevada's Democratic caucuses, edging rival Vermont senator Bernie Sanders out in what was a contentious night on many levels. Social media remained a major source for election updates among followers of politics, and many Twitter users in particular were hampered by that platform's 140-character limit (which sometimes led to misleading or incomplete information, particularly when a link was tweeted). On 2 April 2016 Sanders supporters began tweeting that the senator from Vermont had actually won Nevada more than a month after the state was called for Clinton. Much of the nuance of whatever had happened was elided due to character constraints: However, as of 9 April 2016, sites that track delegate counts weren't reflecting any retroactive win in Nevada for Bernie Sanders: In fact, the referenced scenario didn't actually encompass Sanders' having flipped Nevada to retroactively claim a win after having run second to Hillary Clinton there in February 2016. As explained by the Las Vegas Sun, the events that led many to believe Sanders had actually won Nevada involved the second part of a three-step process, in which county conventions select delegates to send to the Democratic state convention in May 2016, not to the Democratic national convention in July 2016 (although, confusingly, some of the former could be among the latter): What all that means, in short, is that Sanders will have a larger number of delegates (2,124) attending the state convention in May than Clinton will (1,722), and thus he may be able to flip a few of those remaining 12 convention delegates. But most likely all that will happen is that Sanders will go from an estimated 20-15 deficit to a more narrow 18-17 delegate split, which is not a win for him. The Washington Post echoed that thought, describing Sanders' gains as preliminary and likely insufficient to give Sanders a win in Nevada: Reno television station KRNV noted that Hillary Clinton was at a disadvantage because many of her delegates failed to appear at the Clark County Democratic Convention, something that had happened in 2008 as well: In short, Sanders did gather more support in Nevada at the second-tier Clark County convention on 2 April 2016, and most predictions hold that the events of that day will likely apportion two more delegates to Sanders. However, the county convention did not nullify the outcome of the 20 February 2016 caucus, and while Sanders did improve his campaign's standing in Nevada, he didn't flip Nevada in his favor, as Nevada's final delegate math won't be decided until the state convention on 14 May 2016. (en)
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