The caucus attracted three kinds of folks: the democracy-in-action proselytizers who have been thrilled to be there; the resigned skeptics who stat
The caucus attracted three kinds of folks: the democracy-in-action proselytizers who have been thrilled to be there; the resigned skeptics who stated they thought caucuses have been foolish however realized that they had no different alternative, in the event that they needed to vote in Nevada; and the completely bewildered, who had no clue what they have been presupposed to do.
“I’m very nervous, and I don’t know what is going on,” stated David Dial, 33, a nurse who had lately moved to Henderson from Miami. Sporting an Andrew Yang T-shirt regardless that Mr. Yang is not working for president, Mr. Dial pronounced the caucus course of “bizarre.”
“In Florida, it’s loads simpler,” he stated. “You simply go and vote for somebody.”
However throughout the room, Miriam Melton-Villanueva, a historical past professor, couldn’t cease praising the assembly, the voting, the possibility to interact politically with folks she would possibly by no means have met in any other case.
“The caucus system is the very best,” she stated. “That is us voting with our hearts and collaborating with our neighbors.”
The assembly settled down, with Connie Fielder, a retired elementary college instructor, presiding. She had undergone hours of coaching with the state Democratic Occasion, each in particular person and on-line.
She had checked that her party-issued iPad, which might carry out the complicated mathematical calculation used to resolve what number of delegates every candidate would get, was functioning and totally powered up. She had in entrance of her an actual script the occasion had given her for tips on how to run the assembly. (“They’ve emailed the satan out of us,” Lewis Williams, a nurse who was overseeing the proceedings within the cafeteria, stated earlier. “I feel this can be a very clear course of, so long as you convey your glasses.”)