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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf we eliminate Super Delegates we should eliminate caucuses too !!!
We should make it easier to vote and not harder.
stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)And help the states transition away from caucuses.
I'm not in the mood to negotiate with Turner and the like.
tonyt53
(5,737 posts)Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)is you want to vote in the democratic primary...register as a democrat
tonyt53
(5,737 posts)musette_sf
(10,206 posts)R B Garr
(16,993 posts)of the caucuses. It is corrupt to bully people.
marble falls
(57,333 posts)leftynyc
(26,060 posts)The caucuses are anti-Democratic and a disgusting waste of an entire day.
Tom Rinaldo
(22,917 posts)I was Chair of our local Democratic Committee until recently and townships in our region use caucuses for parties to nominate candidates for local Town offices. There are only several hundred registered Democrats in our town to begin with, the expense of paying for an actual Town primary would be a real burden locally. But at least when we run a local caucus the balloting is secret, none of that stand with the group supporting candidate A or B nonsense.
Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)The DNC can easily eliminate the superdelegate rule.
The DNC cannot force any state to expend public funds to hold a primary. All the DNC could do would be to refuse to seat convention delegates chosen by any means other than a primary. In the many states under complete GOP control, the Republicans would be happy to preserve their caucuses, or perhaps even eliminate their primary and switch to a caucus system. They could then tell the voters "The Democrats wouldn't admit anyone from our great state to their convention, but we Republicans welcomed your representatives."
The same goes for the rules governing eligibility to vote in a primary. The rules are set by the state legislatures. There are, IIRC, a couple states where the legislature has chosen to delegate that decision to the parties, but that's the exception. The DNC couldn't mandate closed primaries (or, for that matter, mandate open primaries) except through the blunt instrument of refusing to seat delegates from states that didn't bend to its will.
TheFrenchRazor
(2,116 posts)Gothmog
(145,631 posts)Texas used to have the Texas two step which was a combination primary and caucus where 2/3rds of the delegates were allocated by the primary and one-third by caucus. Hillary Clinton won the primary portion in 2008 but lost the caucus portion with President Obama getting the most Texas delegates
Texas had to give up the Texas two step in 2016 and I do not miss caucuses. Caucuses are very undemocratic