Word: caucusesã
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...requisite optimism, the process of electing a new president has not been free of scrutiny. Rather, the most recent cycle of caucuses and primaries has only underscored the problems with our election system. The staggered calendar has given undue influence to a handful of states with early primaries and caucuses??€”rendering the contests of states that vote late in the schedule almost meaningless. Most undemocratic has been the superdelegate system, which may, for the first time in recent electoral history, determine the candidate for the Democratic Party. One mere vote from a superdelegate at the Democratic convention...
...Mitt Romney, repeating his win in the state that launched the Arizona veteran’s strong showing in the 2000 presidential primaries. Clinton’s victory, by a three point margin with 96 percent of precints reporting, came less than a week after Obama won the Iowa caucuses??€”a victory that had appeared to give Obama, a Harvard Law School graduate, significant momentum. But Clinton’s Harvard supporters said that their candidate was not to be underestimated. “Everyone left her for dead after Iowa, and that was just foolish given...
...takes several hours and does away with the secret ballot, has been aptly described as arcane. In addition, voters who cannot make it to the primary because they are working, sick, or deployed overseas have no way to participate. The sampling of Iowan voters that make it to the caucuses??€”under 15 percent of the voting-age population, even with this year’s record turnouts—is therefore not necessarily representative of the state. While the decision to abandon the primacy of the caucus system or the current primary schedule would be vigorously opposed...
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