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TexasTowelie

(111,314 posts)
Sun Jun 24, 2018, 03:47 AM Jun 2018

Nebraska Democrats consider ditching 'difficult' presidential caucuses

LINCOLN — Nebraska Democrats are weighing whether to scrap their decade-old practice of holding presidential caucuses.

The Nebraska Democratic Party’s platform committee voted with no dissent Friday at Southeast Community College to advance a resolution calling for the elimination of presidential caucuses before the 2020 election.

When the resolution was introduced, there were cheers from the group, and several people exclaimed that they dislike the caucuses.

The resolution now will come before all the delegates at Saturday’s state party convention.

Read more: http://www.omaha.com/news/politics/elections/nebraska-democrats-consider-ditching-difficult-presidential-caucuses/article_21c2e547-b26b-56b6-882a-fd0aee24c693.html

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Nebraska Democrats consider ditching 'difficult' presidential caucuses (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jun 2018 OP
Caucuses are very undemocratic Gothmog Jun 2018 #1
The caucuses were fun to go to TheFarseer Jul 2018 #2

TheFarseer

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2. The caucuses were fun to go to
Wed Jul 18, 2018, 08:20 PM
Jul 2018

It was fun to meet other democrats. We even took our 1 year old to the last one and that was interesting. Overall though, i agree caucuses are less fair that a primary and i won't be sad to see it go.

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