Reply #31: I'm not sure Clinton didn't grouse in 92 and 96. Others certainly did. [View All]

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Washington's legislation was passed sometime between 88 and 92, so it was obviously an issue then. I remember in 92 when Jerry Brown was trying to Obama the Texas caucuses, and was handing out flyers on how to do it at all his Texas rallies.

Whether the Clintons ever said anything one way or the other on the matter, I don't know, since the 92 election was over by New York, IIRC, and Brown was never a very serious challenger. In 96, there wasn't even an opponent.

And unequal treatment is discrimination, the same as poll taxes and grandfather clauses. If a certain category of voter has greater difficulty voting under the rules, then that voter is discriminated against, and will not be fairly represented in an election.

Again, the facts that caucuses discriminate and that they do not represent the popular point is not debatable, no matter how often you yell bullshit. The Texas and Washington results prove it easily. For that matter, look at the numbers of people who vote in all caucuses--it's a fraction of the numbers who vote in the primaries. Check out Washington's numbers--670,000 primary voters, 30,000 caucus voters. That's what, 22 times more voters?

Washington
Primary
Obama 51% 354,112
Clinton 46% 315,744
Caucus
Obama 68% 21,629
Clinton 31% 9,992