Hillary Clinton
Related: About this forumIn 2008 WA state had both a caucus and a preference primary
The caucus went overwhelmingly for Barack Obama 68-31 percent. It is the caucus that awards the delegates. Ten days later there was a presidential preference primary and the results were much narrower. Obama still won but by only 51-46 percent. It was only a "beauty pageant" and awarded no delegates. But still nearly 700,000 people voted in that primary compared to about 250,000 who participated in the caucus.
This is one reason why I think caucuses are not very democratic. Many people just can't make it to a caucus but can manage to vote before or after work or for many other reasons.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)Anything else disenfranchises.
BlueMTexpat
(15,373 posts)LiberalFighter
(51,084 posts)The party expends the finances to conduct them. Taxpayers don't pay.
Cha
(297,655 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Because of mobility and transportation at caucus time. I hope this is resolve before 2020.