The Las Vegas Review-Journal recently interviewed Nevada State Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford about his work on the national Democratic Change Commission, the body that is thinking about the party’s 2012 presidential selection process. See here (scroll down one item). Horsford is an enthusiastic proponent of presidential caucuses, rather than presidential primaries, at least for his own state. He said, about the 2008 Nevada Democratic caucus, “It was the best party-building effort in the party’s history. We registered 40,000 new Democrats in 90 minutes…The neighborhood interaction that takes place through a caucus helps to connect communities and individuals.”

The Nevada Democratic caucus in 2008 was in January, and Horsford said he will fight to maintain Nevada’s position in the schedule as one of the 4 states permitted to go first. The others are South Carolina, Iowa and New Hampshire.