NV caucus process is a joke btw.
Anyway, back to my precinct group of 28. The chair person had on a Mitt t-shirt and kept speaking as though the mitt campaign was in charge of the caucus. He was an annoying man, about 6'1 350lbs. He said now who wants to speak for Newt, and no one spoke. I had already sized up my precinct. It was 24 fellow mormon friends and 4 of us that were not.
Ok so no one spoke up and he looked at me and asked if I wanted to speak. I asked him if the gentleman at the next table to could speak for newt and he replied NOOOOOO he is not in our precinct!! I proceeded to tell him what the state gop had told the gentleman and chaos insued for aobut 10 min, while someone came over to clarify. So he asked me again to speak..
I said well considering I count 24 mormons for mitt, what is the point! I already knew that one non mormon lady was voting for Rick and the ponytail guy was voting for Paul. Only my husband and I for Newt. I knew there would be no swaying the 24 mormons nor the paul guy. The Santorum lady had already told me, she loved Rick and felt sorry for his little girl and was only voting Rick. So I told the guy, go ahead and preach to your people, and shuck my head.
The disorganization of the place was unbelievable! CAucus process is for crap!
So we voted and of course I called it right.. 24 sheeple for mitt and the lone rick and paul people and the 2 for newt from my husband and I :(
To my knowledge all the 20+ precincts represented at the caucus had mitt people as chairmen!
While the Mormon % in NV may not seem like much... They all swamped the caucuses (sp). To me a caucus is not a fair process, especially in Vegas. Too many people have industry jobs that can't come and spend several hours for this BS!
Plus NV has no idea how to do a caucus!
Prior to moving here, I had never had this process in the other states where I voted.
NV needs to go back to Primary voting as we do have to show ID to vote!
That truly sounded UGLY!
So people don’t vote in a caucus? the causus votes for the people?
Get involved. If your state representatives won’t support going back to the primary, run for office yourself. Or petition others to change the rules. Seems to me the caucus was created to keep the power out of the hands of the people...Either the establishment or the religious movement want the power....Maybe we should start chanting POWER TO THE PEOPLE....lol
I've been repeatedly assured, told, berated, etc. that mormons are nothing but solid conservatives and will vote appropriately. That we will lose our country without their "conservative" voting.
I was called a bigot for pointing out that 94% of the Utah vote went for Romney in 2008. That it was just an aberration. There's no way that mormons would engage in identity politics.
Identity politics?? Vote for a mormon simply because he's a mormon. Say it ain't so!!
/do I really need a sarcasm tag?/