2012 United States presidential election in Nevada

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2012 United States presidential election in Nevada
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The 2012 United States presidential election in Nevada took place on November 6, 2012, as part of the 2012 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. State voters chose six electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote pitting incumbent Democratic President Barack Obama and his running mate, Vice President Joe Biden, against Republican challenger and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and his running mate, Congressman Paul Ryan.

Nevada was won by President Barack Obama with 52.36% of the vote to Mitt Romney's 45.68%, a 6.68% margin of victory.[1] In 2008, Obama won the state by 12.49%. Nevada has voted for the winner in every presidential election from 1912 onwards, except in 1976 when it voted for Gerald Ford over Jimmy Carter and in 2016 when it voted for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump. Carson City, which voted for Obama in 2008, flipped to supporting the Republican Party this election cycle. Despite only winning two counties (Clark and Washoe), these counties consist of over 87% of Nevada's population and are home to Las Vegas and Reno, the largest and third largest cities in the state, thus allowing Obama to win by a comfortable margin. [2]

Democratic caucuses[]

Incumbent President Barack Obama was not challenged for the Democratic candidacy so no Democratic Primary was held.

Republican caucuses[]

2012 Nevada Republican caucuses
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The Republican caucuses were held on February 4[3] and they are closed caucuses,[4] Mitt Romney was declared the winner.[5]

There are 400,310 registered Republicans voting for 28 delegates.[6][7]

Date of caucuses[]

The 2012 Nevada Republican caucuses were originally scheduled to begin on February 18, 2012,[8] much later than the date in 2008, which almost immediately followed the beginning of the year in January 2008.[9] On September 29, 2011, the entire schedule of caucuses and primaries was disrupted, however, when it was announced that the Republican Party of Florida had decided to move up its primary to January 31, in an attempt to bring attention to its own primary contest, and attract the presidential candidates to visit the state.[10] Because of the move, the Republican National Committee decided to strip Florida of half of its delegates.[11] Also as a result, the Nevada Republican Party, along with Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, then sought to move their caucuses back into early January.[11] All but Nevada, who agreed to follow Florida,[12] confirmed their caucus and primary dates to take place throughout January, with Nevada deciding to hold their contest on February 4, 2012.[13]

The caucuses for 1,835 precincts in 125 sites were scheduled: voting from 9 AM - 1 PM, ballots handling 9-10 AM and to conclude by 3 PM at the latest on February 4, with results for almost all counties to be announced by the party at 5 PM.

Clark County[]

For Clark County, a special caucus was held at the Adelson Educational Campus at 7 PM, intended to accommodate those who observe Saturday Sabbath.[14] According to Philip Kantor, an Orthodox Jew, the goal of the after-work caucus was to prevent electoral fraud "It has everything to do with not being deprived of a vote, being disenfranchised".[15] This late caucus allowed a timely vote for Seventh-day Adventists, Orthodox Jews and other who don't vote until Sabbath is over.[16] Adelson campus caucus attendees were required to sign affidavits stating that they had not already cast their ballot in an earlier caucus, that day.[14] There was only one nationwide televised (by CNN) public vote-count.[citation needed] That Adelson caucus count provided the following Candidate vote results: Ron Paul 181, Mitt Romney 61, Newt Gingrich 57, and Rick Santorum 16 votes.[citation needed] The results of this special caucus were announced Feb 4 near 11 PM.[citation needed] Paul got second place in Clark County, but Gingrich was ahead of Paul by a larger margin in the rest of the state and therefore ended up beating Paul statewide for second place.[citation needed]

Results[]

Further information: Results of the 2012 Republican Party presidential primaries
See also: Statewide opinion polling for the Republican Party presidential primaries, 2012 § Nevada (February 4)

Turnout was 8.23%. 1,800 of 1,800 precincts (100%) reporting.[17]
The voting-eligible population (400,310 registered Nevada Republicans).[6]
125 caucus sites.

Nevada Republican caucuses, February 4, 2012[18]
Candidate Votes Percentage Projected delegate count Actual Delegates
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AP
[21] 		CNN
[22] 		MSNBC
[23]
Mitt Romney 16,486 50.02% 14 14 14 20
Newt Gingrich 6,956 21.10% 6 6 6 0
Ron Paul 6,175 18.73% 5 5 5 8
Rick Santorum 3,277 9.94% 3 3 3 0
No Vote 67 0.20% 0 0 0 0
Unprojected delegates: 0 0 0 0
Total: 32,961 100% 28 28 28 28

This final result was announced by Twitter and the Nevada Republican Party on Monday February 6, at 01:01 am PST (local time).[24] The actual Republican National Convention delegates from Nevada are mostly Ron Paul supporters (22 of 28), which were elected by state convention on May 6. The Nevada Republican Party's rules state that most elected delegates to the RNC are still bound to vote for Romney (in the first round of voting), because of Romney's statewide caucuses winning.

Nevada State Convention Delegates May 6, 2012
Candidate Supporters for this candidate who are Delegates from NV to the RNC [25][26][27][28][29][30]
Ron Paul 22
Mitt Romney 6
Totals: 28

Controversy[]

Allegations of voter fraud have arisen due to a recount of Clark County ballots despite there being no official contest from any of the campaigns. One reason given by the GOP was that there were more ballots cast than people "signed in" at some precincts.[31]

General election[]

Candidate Ballot Access:

  • Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan, Republican
  • Barack Obama/Joseph Biden, Democratic
  • Gary Johnson/James P. Gray, Libertarian
  • Virgil Goode/Jim Clymer, Constitution

Polling[]

Throughout the race, Barack Obama tied or won every single pre-election poll except one. The final poll showed Obama leading 51% to 47%, while the average of the last 3 polls showed Obama leading Romney 50% to 47%. [32]

Results[]

2012 United States presidential election in Nevada[33]
Party Candidate Running mate Votes Percentage Electoral votes
Democratic Barack Obama Joe Biden 531,373 52.36% 6
Republican Mitt Romney Paul Ryan 463,567 45.68% 0
Libertarian Gary Johnson Jim Gray 10,968 1.08% 0
Other/None 5,770 0.57% 0
Constitution Virgil Goode Jim Clymer 3,240 0.32% 0
Total 1,014,918 100%

By county[]

County Obama Votes Romney Votes Others Votes Total Total %
Carson City 44.13% 10,291 53.15% 12,394 2.72% 634 23,319 2.30%
Churchill 28.85% 2,961 68.79% 7,061 2.37% 243 10,265 1.01%
Clark 56.42% 389,936 41.82% 289,053 1.77% 12,201 691,190 68.10%
Douglas 35.65% 9,297 62.42% 16,276 1.93% 502 26,075 2.57%
Elko 21.96% 3,511 75.15% 12,014 2.88% 461 15,986 1.58%
Esmeralda 21.15% 92 72.87% 317 5.98% 26 435 0.04%
Eureka 13.24% 107 82.05% 663 4.70% 38 808 0.08%
Humboldt 30.24% 1,737 66.33% 3,810 3.43% 197 5,744 0.57%
Lander 24.67% 534 72.98% 1,580 2.36% 51 2,165 0.21%
Lincoln 18.59% 400 78.58% 1,691 2.83% 61 2,152 0.21%
Lyon 34.38% 7,380 62.99% 13,520 2.63% 565 21,465 2.1%
Mineral 42.41% 863 53.07% 1,080 4.52% 92 2,035 0.20%
Nye 36.07% 6,320 60.30% 10,566 3.63% 636 17,522 1.72%
Pershing 33.55% 632 61.94% 1,167 4.51% 85 1,884 0.19%
Storey 39.76% 920 57.09% 1,321 3.15% 73 2,314 0.23%
Washoe 50.79% 95,409 47.09% 88,453 2.13% 3,993 187,855 18.51%
White Pine 26.54% 983 70.22% 2,601 3.24% 120 3,704 0.36%

Counties and independent cities that flipped from Democratic to Republican[]

  • Carson City

Analysis[]

Nevada has historically been a swing state. It has voted for the winner of every presidential election since 1912, except for 1976 and 2016. From 1992 to 2004, the margin of victory was always under five points. In 2008, however, the state swung over dramatically to support Obama, who carried it by 12.49%.

In 2012, Obama held onto Nevada, though by a narrower margin of 6.68%. This was due almost entirely to Obama carrying the state's two largest counties–Clark County, home to Las Vegas and Henderson, and Washoe County, home to Reno. These two counties account for 85% of Nevada's population. Romney dominated the state's rural counties, which have supported Republicans for decades. However, the only large jurisdiction he carried was the independent city of Carson City.

As in 2008, Obama owed his victory in part to the state's Hispanic voters breaking heavily for him. According to exit polls, Hispanics made up 19% of the electorate and voted for Obama by almost three-to-one.[34]

See also[]

References[]

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  2. ^ Bureau, US Census. "Census.gov". Census.gov. Retrieved 2020-09-02.
  3. ^ Peoples, Steve (2011-10-22). "Nevada Caucus Date: Nevada Moves Date To Feb. 4". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2011-11-04.
  4. ^ Nevada Republican - The Green Papers
  5. ^ Barabak, Mark Z. (February 4, 2012). "Mitt Romney cruises to victory in Nevada caucuses". Los Angeles Times.
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  7. ^ Active Voters by Party and Age
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  14. ^ Jump up to: a b Molly Ball (27 January 2012), "In Nevada, Sheldon Adelson Gets His Very Own Caucus" The Atlantic.
  15. ^ Las Vegas Review Journal Adelson distances himself from GOP special caucus decision
  16. ^ Steinhauser, Paul (February 4, 2012). "Will Nevada Give Romney A Second Straight Victory?". CNN (via wesh.com). Retrieved February 8, 2012.
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  19. ^ AJC, ""Archived copy". Archived from the original on May 8, 2012. Retrieved May 7, 2012.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)" (May 6, 2012). AJC.
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  24. ^ https://twitter.com/NVVoteCount/status/166446518109356032 @NVVoteCount NV Caucus Results B 00 TOTAL 32963 IN 1800 OF 1800 GIN 6956 PAU 6175 ROM 16486 SAN 3277 NOV 69 (1/1)
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  30. ^ "Ron Paul at Nevada State Convention 2012 " accessdate=May 8, 2012. Video of NV convention Speech.
  31. ^ "WLong lines, complaints of election fraud plague special Las Vegas caucus for religious voters". The Washington Post. 5 February 2012. Archived from the original on 9 February 2012. Retrieved 5 February 2012.
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  33. ^ "Nevada Secretary of State". Retrieved 2012-11-10.
  34. ^ "Nevada Presidential Race". CNN.

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