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Originally posted by: cpestot
AS a registered democrat, I did NOT caucus this year. Normally I do participate in the Iowa caucus but it requires that I take a vacation day from my hospital job. Since there was no issue of presidential candidates this year at the democratic caucus, I chose not to take the time off work. I could have changed party affiliation and caucused Republican this year but that just seems so sneaky.
On the other hand, I'll bet the 4% who did show up this year were all 100% genuinely alive voters and Iowa does not have the turn out of dead people who apparently turn up to vote in our neighboring state!
(Actually I'm not trying to be snarky, just trying to give Terry a hard time. I think a caucus makes a lot of sense in a small state like Iowa. In a typical election year when both parties are working on narrowing down the field of Presidentail candidates there is a lot more participation.)
I appreciate having had the opportunity to hear as many candidates as possible, and I promise that four years from now I will trade shifts so that I can, once again, participate in the Democratic caucus in Iowa. I like the idea that every four years I get to meet a bunch of my neighbors and invest an evening talking to them about the candidates.
Iowa does have primary elections but they are much later--I think in June.
Thanks for your input. I see this is their primary so to speak. No other one scheduled. As I investigated from a point of curiosity. I see cost is a factor. I was surprised that 13 states actully do the caucus thing. And and in Illinois politics pretty much anything goes. And in Chicago the term vote early and often is not made up.
Terry
