Finally conceding defeat to New Hampshire in the Republican calendar stare-down, Nevada’s GOP on Saturday voted to move its caucus date from Jan. 14 to Feb. 4. “We want to make sure that Nevada’s voice is strong,” Nevada GOP Chairwoman Amy Tarkanian said of the move, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Text Size - 
 
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 The Nevada GOP’s much-anticipated move, formalized at the party’s Central Committee meeting in Las Vegas, came after 10 days of prodding from the Republican National Committee, presidential campaigns and the New Hampshire political establishment. "Our focus should be on defeating (Barack) Obama," she said, adding, "It's time to move forward. … We will be the good guys in the end. New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner insisted a state law required at least seven days between contests and Nevada's vote was too close. When the Nevada state GOP could wait no longer, party leaders – who favored a Feb. 4 date, but were overrun by donors and grass-roots activists who wanted to stay ahead of Florida’s Jan. 31 primary – announced Oct. 5 that caucuses would be held Jan. 14. We don’t need to be New Hampshire’s pinata.” 
 
 “This change ensures that Nevada retains its prominent national role, as the first contest in the West and it restores Nevada’s full slate of delegates to the Republican National Convention,” RNC Chairman Reince Priebus said in a statement.
– Talk about political inside baseball: Nevada restored order to the GOP's chaotic primary scheme today by agreeing to run its caucus in early February. Prodded by Mitt Romney's campaign, Nevada had slated its caucus for Jan. 14, but with half the Republican field promising a boycott, and RNC Chairman Reince Priebus personally showing up to sway Nevada Republicans, the state switched its caucus date to Feb. 4, Politico reports. “This has become a distraction," Nevada GOP Chairwoman Amy Tarkanian told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. "It’s time to move forward. … We will be the good guys in the end. We don’t need to be New Hampshire’s pinata.” Republicans in other early-caucus states expressed relief as Nevada accepted being the first caucus in the West, after Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Florida. The move also means Nevada will have its full slate of 29 RNC delegates reinstated.