Posted on 06/02/2015 6:53:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Jeb Bush will enter 2016 with plenty of advantages, but the first-in-the-West nominating contest likely won’t be one of them.
Nevada lawmakers this week opted against changing the state’s presidential caucus to a primary, a decision that runs counter to the wishes of Bush, Marco Rubio, and other GOP establishment-types who had hoped a switch would give them a better chance at posting a momentum-building victory there.
Caucuses require a good deal more effort and patience from voters than primaries, and as a result the contests tend to favor candidates that have built a network of highly motivated activists. That means preserving the caucus is good news for Rand Paul, whose legions of libertarian-leaning supporters are seen as the most likely to turn out in full force next February. It should also give a bit of boost to Mike Huckabee, Ted Cruz, and other candidates who make their living on the edge of the GOP mainstream. When turnout is in the single digits—it was around 8 percent among Nevada Republicans in the 2012 caucus—a few thousand diehards can mean a world of difference.
Still, recent history suggests Paul shouldn’t celebrate just yet. Mitt Romney twice coasted to victory in the Nevada caucus, albeit with the help of the state’s large Mormon population, which accounts for roughly a quarter of GOP caucus-goers there....
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Nevada poll: Sandoval early favorite to succeed Reid; Cruz surges to lead pack with Walker
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3274863/posts
Cruz, Walker Tied For the Lead in New Nevada Poll
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3274312/posts
If Paul is annoying the Establishment, I like him.
I have to go look up the difference between primary and caucus. This is the first time I followed the primaries. Good news for Cruz.
Lol! That about sums up my method of choosing a candidate. The more they rile up the establishment the better I like them. Figure out who the elites don’t like. That’s the one I want.
Washington has become an incestuous cesspool of privilege.
Democrats are in a funk, disgusted with Hillary and they are after all, radicals. They despise Israel for the most part, certainly the defense industry and all foreign engagements that call for defending and protecting anything, unless of course it’s their government subsidies.
They are going to haul to Rand Paul until the cows come home for that reason alone, and many others.
Stay out da bushes!
....the contests tend to favor candidates that have built a network of highly motivated activists...
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Definitely good news for Cruz.
Somebody needs to tell Rand Paul to do something with that freakin’ hair of his. Get a new style dude.
That is what I am thinking now. It is patently obvious every GOP Elite, Neocons like McCain & Lindy Graham, Every Chamber of Commerce honcho, are all against Rand Paul now. For what? Proposing limits on NSA mass spying of private citizens? Why Boston bombing, Texas shootings by 2 radical Islamists, Fort Hood shooting by Nidal Hassan, and all these following crimes were never detected by NSA?
9/11/2011 USA Waltham, MA 3 0 Three Jewish men have their throats slashed by Muslim terrorists.
1/15/2012 USA Houston, TX 1 0 A 30-year-old Christian convert is shot to death by a devout Muslim.
2/7/2013 USA Buena Vista, NJ 2 0 A Muslim targets and beheads two Christian Coptic immigrants.
3/24/2013 USA Ashtabula, OH 1 0 A Muslim convert walks into a church service with a Quran and guns down his Christian father while praising Allah.
4/15/2013 USA Boston, MA 3 264 Foreign-born Muslims describing themselves as ‘very religious’ detonate two bombs packed with ball bearings at the Boston Marathon, killing three people and causing several more to lose limbs.
4/19/2013 USA Boston, MA 1 1 Jihadists gun down a university police officer sitting in his car.
8/4/2013 USA Richmond, CA 1 0 A convert “on a mission from Allah” stabs a store clerk to death.
3/6/2014 USA Port Bolivar, TX 2 0 A Muslim man shoots his lesbian daughter and her lover to death and leaves a copy of the Quran open to a page condemning homosexuality.
4/27/2014 USA Skyway, WA 1 0 A 30-year-old man is murdered by a Muslim fanatic.
6/1/2014 USA Seattle, WA 2 0 Two homosexuals are murdered by an Islamic extremist.
6/25/2014 USA West Orange, NJ 1 0 A 19-year-old college student is shot to death ‘in revenge’ for Muslim deaths overseas.
9/25/2014 USA Moore, OK 1 1 A Sharia advocate beheads a woman after calling for Islamic terror and posting an Islamist beheading photo.
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