I’m in Colorado ( a caucus state) and I agree it’s a mess, mostly because
a) the system is so complicated it pixxes off everybody.
b) finding volunteers to staff the caucuses is extremely difficult.
c) it only happens once in awhile, so the people in charge are all rookies.
It would be so much better to just do a closed primary.
Amen. You’d think the party would have figured this out by now.
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But closed primaries are so Conservative...
Yeah..whose brilliant idea was it to do caucus? Those days are gone long time ago when people knew each other in towns.
I’m in CO too. Money controls primaries. As flawed as caucuses are, it’s the only way normal people have any real input into the process.
b) finding volunteers to staff the caucuses is extremely difficult.”””
Don’t have any info about how hard it was to find volunteers——but my caucus site had a boatload of helpers & they were all very friendly. Also very efficient. Each precinct (6 precincts in the gym) had it’s own sign in registration record book & a smart, efficient person doing that part of the work. A couple of people at the main gym door to help us find bathrooms, etc. \
No where did I get the feeling that these people were grumpy or didn’t WANT to be there.
The 200’ long line outside when I left were keeping their sense of humor——we told them we open up 2 chairs for ALL of them......