Nevada podría volver a febrero

Las Vegas Sun:

Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus, in Las Vegas for the Western Republican Leadership Conference, is reportedly pushing hard to broker an early-state compromise that would push Nevada’s caucus date back to Feb. 4.

Were the state to move from its current date of Jan. 14, Nevada would hold the fifth presidential nominating contest—after Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Florida.

In return for forfeiting its coveted third-in-the-nation contest this year, Nevada would receive promises of stricter future sanctions to protect its early state status in the long term.

National party leaders also are promising to send high-level surrogates to Nevada to help the state and county parties raise money.

“A good argument can be made about unifying the party and Nevada stepping out and doing what it takes to get us refocused on what we should be thinking about, which is making Barack Obama a one-term president, instead of bickering over who gets to go first, second, third and fourth,” said former Gov. Bob List, Nevada’s Republican national committeeman.

List said he had breakfast with Priebus today and has discussed moving Nevada back to February with some of the presidential candidates.

List confirmed that Nevada would be “assured early status going forward” if it agrees to give up its No. 3 spot this year.