[Bryn-gwlad] The Political Process (was Another PiP no-show)

[Chris Zakes]

At 01:25 PM 3/5/2008, you wrote:
>Either our caucus was smaller or better organized, though it seemed 
>neither at the time.  Sometime after 8:30, they'd signed the last of 
>us up.  179 people showed up for the Democrats, which was a 
>record.  After doing the math (no disagreements in ours), the 
>delegates and alternates were picked.  We were done by 9:00.
>
>I was unfortunately unable to volunteer since I have a concert the 
>night of 29 March.
>
>This was my first time to participate in this aspect of 
>voting.  Somehow I'd missed hearing about it before.


That's probably because this is the first time in a *long* time that 
the Democratic presidential race has been this close. In the past, 
the candidate has been pretty well decided before the primaries ever 
got to Texas, so caucuses didn't matter much.

That also explains why there were so few people at the Republican 
caucuses--their candidate was pretty obvious before it ever got to 
the Texas/Ohio primaries.

         -Tivar Moondragon