Hillary Clinton
Related: About this forumThere was no absentee ballots in ID and UT so that is why the margin was so big. HRC ROOM
In NE Sanders won the caucuses but by smaller margins because Hillary's team did a good job st getting her supporter to vote absentee.
The Washington State caucus does have absentee ballots but Hawaii does not. Hillary's campaign has been getting people in WA to vote absentee.
shenmue
(38,503 posts)DURHAM D
(32,596 posts)seniors, differently-abled, working people. people without cars, and single parents can't vote. Also, in some places the distance to the caucus location can be as much as an hour drive one-way and then you spend 3-6 hours in a room with angry nasty people.
Also, people who own small businesses won't caucus because they don't want their clients/neighbors to know they are Democrats if they are in a red state.
Most caucus states do not have absentee voting.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)kjones
(1,053 posts)SharonClark
(10,005 posts)I'm in Iowa and caucuses are a joke. The county party has started a Caucus and Convention Improvement Committee and put a 24-year old in charge of it. I wrote the state party chair after the caucus about long lines, not enough volunteers, poor volunteer training, and running out of forms! How do you run out of forms when there were fewer participants than in 2008? Most of my friends, who have been attending the caucuses since Reagan, have said never again.
MattP
(3,304 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)MattP
(3,304 posts)If you need to caucus online you should be able many people cant stand hours in line
LisaM
(27,762 posts)1) work
2) disability (I assume this includes if you are a senior and it's too hard to get to a caucus site
3) religion
4) active military
I think that this list should include a few more reasons (the privacy concern cited above is one, pressure from peers or relatives to vote a certain way could be another), but really, they just need to get rid of caucuses. They are obsolete for a variety of reasons - you can't reasonably find a two-hour window when most people aren't working (now that we are a 24/7 society), and they've outlived their usefulness. We are becoming a country where the population is disproportionately congregated in cities. This leads to the scenarios we've seen for a couple of months, with huge lines of people in the large metropolitan areas forcing people to wait hours because you can only caucus during a short, set period of time.
I hope they consider home caregiving as "work" because I've heard a lot of concern from caregivers that they can't participate.
Tarc
(10,472 posts)Sometimes you have to let the little ones go in order to focus on the big picture. After all is said and done about the voting done on March 22, Sanders comes out on top with around 10-15 delegates, but he had to in effect "spend" 2 states to outdo Hill's one.
If you keep spending a buck fifty to make a buck, you know where that leads....
The cherry on top is that Sanders outspent Hillary in ad buys in AZ.
Cha
(295,929 posts)Poll like Arizona!