[Magdalen] pondering politics

[Scott Knitter]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 1:51 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:
> I knew that, but only this year. I confess I'd never paid much attention to the whole caucus/primary/delegate/electors stuff until this time around, as I think I confessed here before.  I had thought that our individual votes actually got counted and decided the outcome...didn't realize there were so many layers between the voters and the candidates.


I think when I attended a Democratic caucus in Michigan, I learned
that at the top of the ticket, primaries and caucuses are really party
events, not just a narrow-the-field preliminaries to the general
election. So a party can decide to have a caucus instead of a primary,
and a lot of other choices. Down the ticket, the same elections just
narrow the field to one candidate per party.

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Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA