2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie just won Nevada! [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)that did not show up and I saw none of you complaining about that.
I do not like caucuses, but these, to quote you guys, are the rules that both candidates agreed to. Go ahead and blame the D party of Nevada for choosing to run a caucus system.
For the record, delegates have to show up at county conventions after regular primary elections as well, IF they do not show up, they can become alternates or replaced. After the County conventions, another smaller slate of delegates will be chosen for the STATE and from there a final slate for the NATIONAL. That final slate reflects the delegates assigned for the state that you see in the pledged delegate totals for each state.
This is regardless of whether you did this in a regular primary, or a caucus election.
I guess I am going to continue to be extremely frustrated as to how little people who claims to know politics actually know about politics and how those pledged delegates are elected.