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RandySF

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Mon Mar 5, 2018, 01:32 PM Mar 2018

Tomorrow is caucus night in Colorado

Across Colorado, Republican and Democratic voters will convene at 7 p.m. sharp on Tuesday in schools, churches, community centers and other neighborhood gathering places, marking the parties' first official step toward picking candidates.

This year, Republicans are grappling with what party officials are calling a "hangover" from the party's 2016 caucuses, when the state party decided against holding a presidential preference poll and eventually drew the wrath of then-candidate Donald Trump, who blasted Colorado's system as "rigged" against him when he didn't wind up with any of the state's delegates to the Republican National Convention.

Democrats, for their part, don't anticipate the kind of standing-room-only crowds that led to long lines and chaotic caucuses some places last cycle, when a surprise surge of Bernie Sanders supporters - along with plenty of voters backing Hillary Clinton - overwhelmed some caucus locations. Nonetheless, organizers say that what appears to be unprecedented levels of voter enthusiasm this year should lead to healthy turnout.


https://m.gazette.com/democrats-republicans-set-to-gather-across-colorado-for-precinct-caucuses/article/1622077

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