Possibly the most important thing: Dems need to get better at the propaganda wars.

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50. There were no drunken hooligams throwing chairs

I was there. The state party, on behalf of the Clinton campaign, pulled some monumental bullshit in keeping out Bernie delegates and rigging the thing. No one threw any chairs, and no one was drunker than usual for Las Vegas (although if you want to score weed, Bernie supporters are obviously the place t go). Some guy did pick up a chair, though it didn't happen out of the blue; Clinton delegates were every bit as misbehaved as Sanders delegates. Both of these events turned otherwise decent people into monumental assholes; death threats are never, ever acceptable, but they were made by people on both sides.

They had to do this because they ran a bad campaign: if they'd run a good campaign, they wouldn't have lost the county convention and therefore the state convention would have been irrelevant. She won the caucuses fair and square, losing because her shitty campaign screwed up the technicalities (like making sure people went out and voted again).

I "screened" delegates for the county party in Las Vegas before the caucuses (I checked credentials). We can't prevent anyone from being a delegate merely because they're assholes. We verified that they were registered Democrats on the day of the caucus and when they signed in at the county convention; there's simply no way for hundreds of Bernie delegates to show up at the state convention and not already be registered Dems. A delegate purge, however, had been conducted by Clinton supporters in the state party; that's why some of Clinton's own delegates joined the sit down strike. They fed the media a bunch but f but losing and the media ran with it.

She should have won the state anyway, because that's what the caucus-goers (caucasians?) voted for. Because of her campaign's fuck up later, her campaign, trying to save face, ended up smearing Bernie and his supporters. I honestly don't believe, though, that many Bernie supporters really understood how politics is played. It's dirty, and Hillary played hardball. Hopefully we haven't seen the last of her.