So.... I just got back from my local caucus... this was my first time (actually, first time I've registered as a Dem, I've always been an independent). Holy shit, this thing was a total melee.

First of all, about 5 times as many people showed up as were expected. They started out by herding us into little "corrals" for our respective precincts. They were planning on doing this in a middle school auditorium, but because of the crowd, they had to use the cafeteria and gym too. We then listened to representatives for various candidates (or the candidates themselves) do their pitch. Since the voters were in three locations, the speech-givers had to run around the school giving the same speech three times.

Then they herded our precincts into various rooms... since there weren't enough rooms, we got a corner of the gym (sharing they gym with three other precincts = LOTS OF NOISE!!!). There was a vacuum of leadership, and the girl that was trying to organize everything (looked to be 18) couldn't speak loud enough for everyone to hear, so I helped her out as precinct secretary.

We voted, with much difficulty, and then everyone wanted to disburse... but we couldn't leave without appointing delegates to go to the state assembly to represent their portion of the precinct. There were ~75 people in our precinct, so 5 delegates were needed. I had to be an alternate delegate (in case the original on can't make it), but I'm hoping I don't have to go through this mess again. :noes:

Anyway, our precinct voted 4 to 1 Obama over Clinton. We also voted on local nominations (CU regent, Congress, Senate). I also met my congressman and my mayor


Cliffs Notes: Caucus = giant mess. Primary ftw.

 

cool.

 

Its cool that you're participating like this. I want to go to a caucus in the future. But GOP...

 

Sounds cool... but glad I can't vote h:

 

you said cauc

 

us

 

yeah, I told my friends that I registered as a demoCAC so I could go to the CACus. h:

They had the Rep caucus in the same building, but they only needed one classroom. :chuckles: Yeah, Boulder is a tree-hugging, frisbee-toting, cheeba-monkey city h:

 

I've always registered as an independent too, but when I renewed my drivers license in March somehow they changed me to democrat. So I figured I'd actually try and caucus this year. I looked into it and discovered what a huge mess it was -- a primary just seems so much easier.

Then my sister made All-State High school choir, and they had their concert last night in Ft. Collins. So I kind of had to go to that instead. A primary would have still allowed me to vote, since I could have gone anytime during the day, but the caucus starts at 7 sharp. The clusterf#$k you described sounds about like my expectations.

 

yeah, filling in the bubble on my lunch break would've been much better.

What I don't get, is Colorado used to primary instead of caucus... why the hell they changed it to this zoo is completely beyond me.