My Experience Caucusing in Nevada

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There are more than 1,000 precincts in Clark County alone.

100 per precinct would be more than 100,000 Ron Paul voters or, about twice as many total voters as turned out to caucuses statewide.

I run large scale canvass operations professionally--and I've done so for decades.

Pay me a ton of money and I'm not going to be able to do 100 Ron Paul caucus votes per precinct. And, if you asked me (or anyone who does this kind of work professionally) you'd be told that it isn't possible.

There are many reasons for this, not the least of which being that many precincts all over the nation don't have even 100 voters.

BTW, more than any other location in the nation, Clark County Nevada makes all current voter registration publicly available, at no cost, to anyone with an internet connection. http://www.clarkcountynv.gov/Depts/election/Pages/VoterDataF...

Actually, Clark County Nevada leads the nation in providing true transparency of voter registration data, it updates the data available every 24 hours...that county is absolutely unique in the nation in this way. It's closest competitor is Harris County Texas which provides such data, very partial per voter data in a far less easily retrievable format...and Harris County Texas got the idea from Clark County Nevada.

Clark County is alone even in the State of Nevada for doing what it does.

You can check the precinct in question, or any precinct, anytime you wish.

If you do, there are some things to consider as you strive toward your goal of proving that you could have turned out 100 Ron Paul supporters in yesterday's caucus.

First, IF there even are 100 voters in that precinct, check to see how many of them are Republican voters who were registered as of the cut-off date for the caucus. There were 2 operative cut-off dates for that registration. First, there was the normal cut-off date of Dec. 31, 2011 and then there was a new cut-off date instituted late in the process, which moved it out to January 20, 2012.

Then, look at the age groups. Keep in mind that of all voters between the age of 18 and 29 typically fewer than 10% show up to vote in any presidential primary or caucus election. And that's a number that has held for New Hampshire, South Carolina and Florida this year. For caucus voting almost none in that age group show up, unless it's those who show up to vote for Ron Paul.

And, the reason Ron Paul turns-out such numbers in a group which otherwise hardly participates is due to the hard work of the people all over the nation, the people like these Ron Paul supporters in Nevada who did their level best.

Because I do such things professionally I happen to have, on my desktop the full voter list for the State of Nevada and can access the current online version provided by their Secretary of State.

I assure you that no one, not anywhere, even any pro could have performed better with the resources available than did the good Ron Paul volunteers in Nevada.

Could things have been done better? In any drive run correctly it's ALWAYS possible to know some things which could have been done better. You learn, then you move on to the next step in the process which might be the next election or it might be, as it is in this case, the state convention.

At that state convention we'll know how many Ron Paul delegates are to be sent to the National convention...

Yesterday, the Ron Paul supporters in Nevada won us some delegates.

I am grateful for their hard work.