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2016 Postmortem

brooklynite

(94,489 posts) Tue Mar 22, 2016, 10:38 PM Mar 2016

Boise, ID Caucus line expected to take 2 1/2 hours past closing time to process (CNN)

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Boise, ID Caucus line expected to take 2 1/2 hours past closing time to process (CNN) (Original Post) brooklynite Mar 2016 OP

Do red states count this week? redstateblues Mar 2016 #1

Idaho is in play in the fall alcibiades_mystery Mar 2016 #2

Great if turnout is up, but lines like that are intolerable. pat_k Mar 2016 #3

They did open up the Century Link Arena next door for the overflow IDemo Mar 2016 #4

Good to hear they took action to accommodate (nt) pat_k Mar 2016 #5

redstateblues

(10,565 posts)

1. Do red states count this week?

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Tue Mar 22, 2016, 10:40 PM

Mar 2016

alcibiades_mystery

(36,437 posts)

2. Idaho is in play in the fall

Reply to redstateblues (Reply #1)

Tue Mar 22, 2016, 10:42 PM

Mar 2016

Because POLITICAL REVOLUTION!

pat_k

(9,313 posts)

3. Great if turnout is up, but lines like that are intolerable.

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Tue Mar 22, 2016, 11:06 PM

Mar 2016

Caucus attendance may be hard to predict, but there's no excuse for lines that long. They need to have "back up" locations booked, or some plan for managing higher (even much higher) than "expected" turnout. Whatever happened to the old adage, "expect the unexpected"?

IDemo

(16,926 posts)

4. They did open up the Century Link Arena next door for the overflow

Reply to pat_k (Reply #3)

Tue Mar 22, 2016, 11:14 PM

Mar 2016

That is where the 2008 'Super-Caucus' was held. I thought they had said never again but apparently changed their mind.

pat_k

(9,313 posts)

5. Good to hear they took action to accommodate (nt)

Reply to IDemo (Reply #4)

Wed Mar 23, 2016, 02:45 AM

Mar 2016

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