Both the Seattle Times and the News Tribube editorial boards agree. By the way primaries are currently held months after the caucus, and
the votes don't count. Yet many more voters show up in the primary anyway.
Seattle Times (Nov 18, 2018):
Now that midterm elections are over, state officials should turn their attention to ensuring Washington voters’ voices count as much as possible in 2020.
That means moving the date of Washington state’s presidential primary to earlier in the year, when it has greater potential to influence which top candidates will compete for the nation’s highest office.
Once this is done, the state Democratic Party should also agree to use the earlier primary election results in its presidential nominating process, instead of continuing to rely on inconvenient caucus meetings that too few voters attend.
https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/editorials/move-washingtons-presidential-primary-to-march-2/
The News Tribune (December 1st, 2018)
Moving the primary to early March might mean Washington could take part in a West Coast Super Tuesday, which could include some combination of Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon and Utah.
California lawmakers set a positive trend last year by moving their presidential primary up three months.
https://www.thenewstribune.com/opinion/editorials/article222459035.html
One of the articles say the biggest opponents of the move would be certain Democrats in love with and nostalgic about the caucus tradition.
