Feb 062008
I’ll say it again: caucuses (cauci?) are an odd method for encouraging participation in the presidential nomination process. To compress voting into a ninety-minute window is to exclude thousands of people who want to vote but have to work. My own caucus site was overwhelmed with voters and the poor volunteers could barely keep up with the flood. I saw a few people get turned away because they showed up a few minutes after the caucusing was over. It’s a confusing, disorganized process and I hope that talk of switching to primary voting gains some traction. Meeting one’s neighbors is great, but that’s what block parties are for.
