| The Green Papers 2008 Presidential Primaries, Caucuses, and Conventions |
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Nebraska Democrat Presidential Nominating Process Precinct Caucus: Saturday 9 February 20081 Advisory Primary: Tuesday 13 May 2008 County Conventions: Sunday 1 June - Tuesday 10 June 2008 State Convention: Friday 20 June - Sunday 22 June 2008 |
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Delegate Selection: Caucus/Convention, Polling hours 8:00a CDT (1300 UTC) / 7:00a MDT (1300 UTC) to 8:00p CDT (0100 UTC) / 7:00p MDT (0100 UTC). The polls open and close at the same GMT/UTC time, that is, polls open and close at a particular local time in the advanced time zone and open and close one hour earlier local time in the lagging time zone. Voter Eligibility: Modified Caucus 31 total delegate votes - 16 district / 5 at large; 3 Pledged PLEOs; 6 Unpledged PLEOs; 1 Unpledged add-on |
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States Chronologically States Alphabetically Democratic Convention Nebraska Republican |
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Here is how we compute the delegate count (based on preliminary caucus results from a party source as of 9 February 2008):
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Friday 20 June - Sunday 22 June 2008: The Nebraska State Democratic Convention convenes. The State Convention chooses 8 of the Nebraska's Pledged delegates to the Democratic National Convention. A mandatory 15 percent threshold is required in order for a presidential contender to be allocated National Convention delegates at the statewide level. 8 delegates are to be allocated to presidential contenders based the support for the presidential contenders in the State Convention as a whole.
The remaining 7 National Convention delegates consist of
These 7 delegates and will go to the Democratic National Convention officially "Unpledged". |
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1 Democratic Party's "First Determining Step" of the delegate selection process. |
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