Caucus updates: UNL goes all in for Sanders; Clinton fails to reach viability, earns zero votes

[leftcoastmountains]

7:35 p.m.: Zero votes for Clinton at UNL caucus

LINCOLN — Hillary Clinton failed to make the cut at a Democratic Party presidential caucus dominated by University of Nebraska-Lincoln students Saturday.

Bernie Sanders out-polled Clinton 194 to 11. Clinton needed 31 votes to be a viable caucus candidate. Ten of her supporters left the caucus rather than realign with Sanders. One student moved to the Sanders camp with cheers.

Final result: Sanders, 195. Clinton, zero.

http://www.omaha.com/news/politics/caucus-updates-unl-goes-all-in-for-sanders-clinton-fails/article_0e948b20-e26f-11e5-8813-0389a16e501a.html

[monicaangela]

1. Excellent!

I sincerely hope this continues.

[oldandhappy]

2. WOW

[Donkees]

3. YOOJ! THANK YOU UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA

[SheilaT]

4. Just under 200 students

at a campus of many thousands? Almost all of whom should have been eligible to participate.

Unless some 20,000 or so caucused as Republicans.

[roguevalley]

5. so what. this stuff is early one

[Autumn Colors]

7. Did some go back to caucus in their hometowns? (nt)

[Bob_Roony]

9. about 70% of students are locals

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They might not be living on campus. They might caucus somewhere else.

[SheilaT]

10. There are over 25,000 students there.

200 is well under 1%. I don't know if Nebraska allows students the option of caucusing at school or at home, but there are going to be a whole lot more than 200 students who are actually residents of Lincoln.

Either this represents enormous apathy on the part of the students -- which means all the Hillary supporters who assure us the young'uns aren't going to vote -- or perhaps Nebraska is a state that makes it hard to vote at all.

I simply find that total number genuinely disturbing.

[ALittleBirdie]

6. Bernie Sanders will send kids to college not war

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1280136285

[corbettkroehler]

8. Most Eloquently Put! n/t