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Caucuses are (5.00 / 2) (#60)
by AnninCA on Sat May 03, 2008 at 01:04:59 PM EST
cheaper.  They dominate in states that are Red.  These states simply cannot raise the money to have primaries.

Even looking at the "buy-off" from the PACS to super-delegates from BOTH Obama and Hillary tells the story.

Some of those donations were $2500 or less.  

That tells the story.

So we're not going to be "rid" of caucuses.

Now, I'd argue to my last breath that Iowa caucuses should not be in the first 4, setting the tone.  And, just for the record?  I went to school in Iowa and love the state.  But that is nuts to give them power.

Frankly, what has yet to be really discussed is just WHY Florida and Michigan went after the DNC over that issue.

I personally think they are right.  The DNC is wrong.

Just my 2 cents.  Iowa has a horrible record.  They usually don't end up even voting for their caucus winner.

They need to be axed.

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The Repub caucus in Iowa was (5.00 / 2) (#106)
by Joan in VA on Sat May 03, 2008 at 03:34:11 PM EST
by secret ballot. How do they do that and why can't we? Blunts the intimidation factor but how would it be called consensus voting? The biggest diff in cost is no machines and votes counted by party rather than BoE. Or is there some cost I'm missing?

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Thoroughly agree about IA. (none / 0) (#71)
by magisterludi on Sat May 03, 2008 at 01:28:39 PM EST
Too much influence.

Off topic a bit, but, as a child watching the news of the primaries, i always remember thinking how everybody must feel so sorry for New Hampshire, it was so-oo little everyone let it go first just to be nice.

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Dominate? (none / 0) (#211)
by JavaCityPal on Sat May 03, 2008 at 07:27:38 PM EST
I don't know how many red states are caucus states.  My very blue state of Washington has always been a caucus state...until this year where we did both. The democrats took the caucus results, but we still had a primary vote several weeks after the caucuses. The Republicans used the vote counts.  I'm hoping we've seen the last of the caucuses here.

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