Are you serious? You posted the article where I got the infomation. How else do you think he got down to a 194 delegate deficit when no more votes had been cast???
From a link within that article (
Bernie Sanders' Unusual Strategy to Win More Pledged Delegates | Rolling Stone). I had to edit out some sections to meet the 5000 character limit.
Nevada was a relatively disappointing night for the Sanders campaign; he lost by more than five points, taking home 15 delegates to Clinton's 20. What most people watching the returns at home didn't realize, though, is that those
numbers aren't final until the state convention almost three months later — and a lot can happen in that amount of time.
The convention in Nevada's most populous county was the first successful example of the
Sanders campaign's strategy to flip pledged delegates at county and state conventions as the race wears on. Rolling Stone's Mark Binelli spoke about this tack with Sanders senior advisor Tad Devine for a piece published in early March:
"Devine went on to sketch out a Sanders path to victory, ...
at one point, he even suggested that pledged delegates — that is, the delegates won at the voting booth — might switch to Sanders if Clinton stumbled badly, an oddly undemocratic pitch from a campaign focused on the rights of the little guy."
The volunteers' efforts to turn out delegates and, crucially, alternates to take the place of delegates who failed show up, helped tighten the race. Only 3,825 of 9,000 delegates elected at the caucuses on February 20th showed up to the county convention. When alternates were factored in (915 elected, 604 unelected), the delegates broke 2,964 for Sanders, and 2,386 for Clinton.
The Sanders campaign is hopeful it will pick up even more delegates there — Littman and his colleagues already have the BernieDialer fired up to ensure their people turn out again — but Nevada State Democratic chair Roberta Lange thinks it's going to be tough for the campaign to move the needle any further in the state.
"Nothing's impossible. [But] it would be very difficult," Lange says. "The people that are coming to the state convention are people that have gone from the caucus to the county and now to the state — they're your most dedicated supporters, and the likelihood of someone not showing up…. I mean, it's possible, but I don't think likely."