[lonestar]

County Convention: An opportunity to corral people to hand out literature. Non-binding straw poll taken and immediately forgotten. Elect delegates to State convention (Only party elites get elected).

Take over the county conventions. A lot of the elites get elected because they show up.

[DManA]

That is the only good argument for this system. Shouldn’t the people who really care and do the work make the decisions?

The down side is the grass roots become unattached to the party and cynical about the whole process.