Texas, please explain. How can you have...

[Rick Myers]

a primary AND a caucus and divide the vote???

We wonder why people don't trust politics. It's hard enough to figure out Ohio's district rules, but to have a primary and a caucus makes no sense to me.

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

1. 2/3 of delegates assigned by the primary, 1/3 by the caucus

Very, very, very strange.

[Liberal Veteran]

2. Washington has a primary and caucus.

It's just that democrats in Washington don't assign delegates based on the primary.

I actually kind of like the way Texas does it.

[FlyingSquirrel]

8. I wouldn't mind if WA adopted a system like Texas

This constant battle over having to sign a "loyalty oath" on the ballot is getting old. I wouldn't mind an open primary, closed caucus system.

[SoCalDem]

13. It's the Sally Field version..

you gotta REALLY REALLY REALLY like your candidate to stand up for them twice in one day :)

[Xipe Totec]

16. The Sybil vote?

That's where I thought you were headed when you mentioned Sally Field

:rofl:

[SoCalDem]

17. no... that would some one else, entirely..

SHAME ON YOU SHAME ON YOU.. ENOUGH WITH THE SPEECHES...CLEAN YOUR ROOM.. QUIT PEEING ON THE FLOOR..PULL UP YOUR PANTS,,. DO YOUR HOMEWORK.. OH.. I AM SO PROUD OF YOU..HUG HUG.. SHAME ON YOU..ARE YOU A MUSLIM OR SOMETHING?

[islandmkl]

3. they've been doing it this way for a while...

nothing new...

the explanation would probably actually explain little that makes sense..

"it's the way it is"...

[Rick Myers]

4. I guess it's kinda' 'split the difference'

Maybe it does make some sense...

[sandnsea]

5. Same reason there are delegates and superdelegates n/t

[Recursion]

6. It's meant to defuse the advantage of rich candidates with big media buys

Or so the theory goes

[readmoreoften]

7. It was awful. I could vote but couldn't caucus.

I just moved here from NY. I was also asked for my driver's license, there were no directions to the polls. I live in a poor, heavily dem area.

[tekisui]

9. It forces boots on the ground, and candidates to pay attention.

[last_texas_dem]

10. Not sure I know the real reason

I'd assume it might have to do with giving more say to more committed members of the party who are more likely to both caucus and vote in the primary than simply to vote in the primary (of course, the fact that we have open primaries kind of complicates that notion.)

[demo dutch]

11. It's called if you don't like the primary results, you have the caucus to set things right???

Knowing what goes on in politics in TX, it may not be far from the truth.

[SoCalDem]

12. The system they have has been in place since 1988.. Bill Clinton apparently liked it in 1992

and again in 1996. :)

[alarimer]

14. We like to vote twice in Texas.

This way, it's actually legal.

[gravity]

15. Probably to have the advantages of both systems