Joe.My.God. LGBT News
In their dissection of the early days of the Sanders campaign, CBS News today delivered a fascinating revelation. They write:
The landslide New Hampshire victory finally put the campaign in a different frame of mind. “It gave us confidence that we could fight,” says Jane Sanders. She calls the New Hampshire blowout “humbling, moving and surprising.”
But then came Nevada, where a harsh reality set in: the Sanders campaign had not scaled up with talented teams beyond the first two states. The campaign had fired the original state director, and replacement Joan Kato was no better. With three weeks to go before the caucuses, the campaign still did not yet have chairs for every precinct.
There were other signs Kato was overmatched. At one point shortly before the caucuses, she instructed staff to buy double-sided coins — in case coin-flips were needed to decide any of the caucuses in the event of a tie, according to staffers. In the end, Sanders lost Nevada by about a 5 percent margin. Although the campaign felt Kato had run a faulty field operation, she was not let go, instead staying on with the campaign as the national delegate director.
At the state convention, CNN reported that Kato told Sanders supporters they should take over the state convention in May, which ended disastrously.
Weaver acknowledged it was “certainly a challenge” to line up an A-list team in every state when the Clinton campaign had hired most seasoned operatives.
New York Magazine points out that double-sided coins would have been fruitless anyway.
Funniest part, as more than one person has reminded me, is ties were not decided by coin flip but by cutting cards! https://t.co/6wDgK8nsdB
— Jon Ralston (@RalstonReports) June 27, 2016