2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie just won Nevada! [View all]Turn CO Blue
(4,221 posts)But when it was Republican Presidential whack jobs, NOBODY on the left could be bothered to care or to LEARN about how the caucuses have a lot of problems.
Instead, Iowa caucus especially is held up practically as the sacred cow.
Paul's delegates coordinated and communicated every step of the way. Ron Paul wanted to be represented at the National Convention, and he eventually (after all the county conventions, congressional districts, assemblies, state convention, etc) wound up with 23 national delegates on the floor so that he would be able to propose items for the Party Platform. Which is the ultimate reason for delegates in the long run.
The Presidential preference primaries and caucuses get all the attention, the true prize in being a delegate is to propose and vote on the platform that will shape the party for years to come.
And yes, the whole system is utterly ridiculous.
But my fascination is how NOBODY on the left cared at all when Ron Paul exposed the flaw of the caucus system, tee hee hee, ain't that Ron Paul a hoot what he did to Romney? But now all the sudden good Dems have an opinion about how the local parties run these things?
I saw maybe ten stupid rules and asinine practices and unfair incidents on caucus night and at the County Convention last Saturday (10 hours of my life, ugh) that would have made any process engineer burst into tears.