Hillary Clinton Campaign Sets The Bar Low For Upcoming Caucuses
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-democratic-caucuses_us_56d9a5e1e4b0000de4043b82Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) could come out a winner in most of the weekend's presidential primary contests -- and that's according to his competitor, who is already trying to manage expectations.
Kansas and Nebraska Democrats hold their caucuses Saturday, while Louisiana will have its primary election that day. Maine Democrats will caucus on Sunday.
Robby Mook, campaign manager for Hillary Clinton, sent out a memo Wednesday that predicted the former secretary of state may lose the caucus states this weekend.
"[A]lthough we continue to fight for every vote, Sen. Sanders has clear advantages and is investing heavily in two upcoming caucuses (Nebraska and Kansas)," Mook wrote.
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Just like in baseball, the caucus can go late in to the night, until all of the votes have been taken.
Authoritarians hate that, they want to call it quits early on and tell everyone to vote.
But, at the last caucus I went to, in 2008, several members that attended the caucus -- actual voting Democrats -- told the precinct captain to give the other side 1 more 5-minute period to make their case to try and persuade the attending caucus members to vote for their candidate, after they pleaded for another round of speeches.
It was awesome.
They gave the other side another 5 minutes to state their case.
And then we took another vote.
Just like in a real Democracy!
Like the Romans used to do it in the Roman Senate, or how the Greeks did it in their assemblies.
It was the most exciting political thing I have ever been involved with in my entire life!!!!
I am an American.
And I love Democracy.
And I love being involved in bringing Democracy to life in this great country of ours.
