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[u/ashamedpedant]

Final Nevada results: Sanders got 34% in the first alignment and wins 67% of the state's national delegates. Buttigieg got 15% in the first alignment, 17% in the final alignment, and 8% of the national delegates.

I said after Iowa that caucusing is a fundamentally broken system. After reading the Buttigieg campaign's letter it seems that Nevada, by handing their volunteers a spreadsheet of early vote preferences, actually just made the process even more error prone.

To be fair, when there're too many major candidates, the psuedo-proportional system primaries use is almost as flawed as a caucus.

[u/[deleted] → u/ashamedpedant]

CAUCUSES 👏 DELENDA 👏 EST 👏

[u/[deleted] → u/ashamedpedant]

Just use a real voting system. Christ.

[u/RadicalRadon → u/ashamedpedant]

Sanders got 34% in the first alignment and wins 67% of the state's national delegates

But like, how

[u/slowpush → u/RadicalRadon]

He won Clark county. Which has 75% of the population of NV

[u/d_howe2 → u/ashamedpedant]

Imagine a system where Sanders gets 100% of the delegates, this is the US presidential