Posted on 02/24/2016 10:33:56 AM PST by No Dems 2016
While Donald Trump won a sweeping victory in Nevada on Tuesday night - his third victory in a row - the biggest story out of the Silver State may actually be the record-breaking turnout Republicans saw at the evening's caucus gatherings.
The Nevada Republican Party reported Wednesday morning that more than 75,000 voters participated in the contest. While that might not seem like a stunning number in a state with a population of somewhere around three million, that turnout absolutely demolished the participation record from 2012, when only about 33,000 Republican voters showed up to caucus.
In fact, Donald Trump alone captured 34,531 votes in his near-landslide victory in the state, surpassing the total votes cast in the same contest four years ago.
It's a pattern that has played out in each of the previous Republican 2016 contests to date.
In South Carolina, more than 730,000 voters turned out during Saturday's GOP primary contest, up from about 603,000 in 2012. In New Hampshire, Republicans shattered the 2012 tally of about 248,000 with a turnout of more than 284,000 this year. And in Iowa, Republicans counted more than 180,000 participants, up from about 121,000 in 2012.
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Trump got more than twice as many voters as Romney got in Nevada in 2012.
Of the registered Democrats in Nevada, the percentage of turnout for their caucus was 2.5%
For Republicans it was almost 18%
The 'Gimme Gimme' supporters of Sanders are most certainly energized.
They will try but turnout will be so good that we could see a possible landslide win for Trump.
If the makes it to be the front runner.
Correction,if Bernie makes it to be frontrunner.
“Near landslide?” It WAS a landslide.
I agree 100%
Good luck getting anyone to run, I have tried and tried.
No one wants to or has the money to do so.
Very frustrating!
Every election in the past 20 years I’ve heard them measure “voter enthusiasm”.
This is the first primary where I have not heard that mentioned.
It’s almost as if the media don’t even want to touch it, but you can be sure that it is being polled, just ignored.
NOBODY is enthused about Bernie or Hillary, so when I hear that Trump cannot beat Hillary, without looking at voter enthusiasm, it just doesn’t fly.
Eric on The Five (Bowling? Bolling?) mentioned that this NV primary beat the previous NV primary turnout record by five fold.
I don’t think he mentioned what year that record was held, or maybe I missed it.
Republican America has awakened. No way anyone, including the GOPe, can put her back to sleep.
Thank you.
I am doing as well as could possibly be expected given the nature of the cancer.
It’s been six years since I went under the knife...three times...and here I am.
God’s speed.
Thanks.. WOW. 75k (R) votes in Nevada versus 12k (D) votes in Nevada. ‘Houston, the Dem party has a problem!’.
Hillary CANNOT win the general without the illegal alien vote. This is why 0dunga might select a ‘HISPANIC’ Supreme Court justice for the Repubs to reject, SO HILLARY CAN BASH THE REPUBLICANS AS RACIST AGAINST HISPANICS to rally her illegal alien voter base!
Well it is even worse in Iowa.
But both Iwoa and NEvada are caucus states...where people have to get more involved in order to be a part.
Apparently not many Dems want to get involved.
It will be interesting to see what the SC primary differences are. In the NH primary there was only a 7% difference...but it favored the GOP.
pub up....rats down
I have flet for the last ten years that the Dems had the ability and the will to conduct voter fraud and be able to swing thir way within a couple of million votes.
That is not going to be nearly enough this time. Thuis the effort to get an additional 8 million+ votes.
It’s not going to work though. We know Congress will not go along with it. And most states will not allow it on the basis of “Executive Fiat.”
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