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What’s your prediction for your caucus meeting tonight? Are you running for county or state delegate? Caucus leadership?
Do you expect a high turnout? Will high turnout benefit candidates? Will naysayers change their minds about the caucus system if turnout is high?
Do you think that Senator Hatch or his challengers will be able to stack the caucus?
Do you think it’ll be like 2010? or something entirely different?
What do you think will happen?
If you’ve ever been a state delegate, or might again be a state delegate, you’ve been flooded in recent days by a veritable forest worth of glossy mailers.
It must be getting close to Utah’s caucus night. From the number of mailers arriving each day, you would think that the election was next week, instead of in the latter half of April. In fact, it’s only the selection of delegates that is this week, and there are those out here that question whether trying to stack the caucuses so much is really very good for our system.
Enter pundit Ethan Millard. [cont…]
Today, with the Utah caucus finally within site (it’s on Thursday at 7 PM if you’re Republican, Tuesday if you’re a Democrat…find out where to attend here), many are still questioning whether we should even have a caucus.
Why not just hold a primary? Why do we have to sit in a room with our neighbors and elect someone else to be our delegate? It would be easier to just hold a primary. [cont…]
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