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PoliGAF 2016 |OT| Ask us about our performance with Latinos in Nevada

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Kyosaiga

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Wait, so in Nevada you have a short time frame to vote?

Is that how I'm interpreting this with the results being released so early?
 
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Macho Madness

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Yes. You have to be in a room with the group for your candidate. At a certain time, they will close the doors and then they will count every one in each group and divide the delegates that way.

If a delegate is to be divided (as in a tie), it will be decided by a high card draw. I guess because Nevada.
 
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brainchild said:
I appreciate your sympathy. I'm sure you can relate in other areas, like with the shit we have to deal with for being gay. People who don't live that experience just don't really have to think about it, so they can take a lot of things for granted.

I think it's cool that you can dig so far into your family history and heritage, but I must confess, as a child, I was very embarrassed whenever this topic came up in school, because it would inevitably lead to a racial divide in the classroom, where the white kids would talk about their centuries of family history, and the black kids would kinda just sit there and shrug their shoulders.

I actually used to hate/blame my mom for a brief time as a child, because I thought that she was purposefully hiding my family history from me. I was simply too young to understand the gravity of the situation. I've since then apologized to my mother for blaming her, and I'm very proud of her for being patient with me.

Anyway, it's been a lifelong dream of mine to one day know my family history, and I'm still hopeful. I don't know when that day will be, but hopefully it'll come before I draw my last breath.
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I actually listened to a talk somewhere from a group that helps potential gay parents. One of the things they were encouraging was making sure that we provide our kids with as much heritage information as we can. Make sure they know our families, but also make sure we treat them to knowing their histories as well. Because we make our own families, it's an interesting perspective. As someone who wants to adopt one day, I really was interested in what they were were saying.

Interestingly, I had almost no interest in learning about it at all. My dad wanted to, so I helped him do it. As I dug more and more, I got a bit more into it. I haven't really done much on my mother's side. I know my family lived in West Virginia around the Civil War. My dad's grandfather fought for the Union. My grandmother actually received a Civil War pension from him well after my dad was born, for some reason.

What you described about being upset when talking about genealogy reminds me of times in school where they would play games in which heterosexuality was the perceived norms. Shit like that hurt.
 
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Macho Madness said:
Yes. You have to be in a room with the group for your candidate. At a certain time, they will close the doors and then they will count every one in each group and divide the delegates that way.

If a delegate is to be divided (as in a tie), it will be decided by a high card draw. I guess because Nevada.
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And yes, if you are not in the room before the doors close then your vote does not count.

Because caucuses.
 
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ivysaur12 said:
That's also true.

The flight from LA to Vegas is super easy, cheap, and Virgin will give you a free drink.



All goes back to my theory that if there were a Psychic gym in America, it's be in Vegas.
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I've only ever driven to Vegas. Love me a good road trip. I've even driven cross-country twice. NYC to LA.
 
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I've flown to Vegas and driven to Vegas. I prefer flying. Though I took the route that has you staring at the Utah desert for far too long when driving.

One hour until we know stuff!
 
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ivysaur12

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Macho Madness said:
I've flown to Vegas and driven to Vegas. I prefer flying. Though I took the route that has you staring at the Utah desert for far too long when driving.

One hour until we know stuff!
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One of my old coworkers is from there -- I got to admit, I didn't realize there was an entire section of Vegas outside of the strip that the locals mostly keep to. I don't know why I never thought about this before! Zappos is apparently pumping a lot of money towards their downtown revitalization.
 
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adam387 said:
She's ranting about Chris Christie, Trump, socialism and Bernie Bros.

She also called Jeb! a big mess, so that's got legs outside GAF, apparently.
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The fact that "Jeb is a mess" has caught on outside of GAF brings me joy and hope for this world.
 
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HylianTom

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BoboBrazil said:
Ok might have been misleading. They just said it was a campus voting site.
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I've wondered.. is it me, or does MSNBC like doing broadcasts from campus voting sites? Seems like they did the same thing for Iowa.

(and Chuck was fine. As with Nate, the luster came off when he went away from pure numbers.)

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