2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumSo, In Looking Toward CA, Is WA Primary or Caucus Result More Telling?
I understood that WA was expected to shed some light on how CA might break, but what does the primary result mean?
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Stallion
(6,473 posts)nm
TomCADem
(17,378 posts)...and open primaries where non-Democrats can vote for the Democratic nominee. Or, as a compromise, limit caucuses to early voting smaller states, so you do not have these odd votes were a small number of caucus goers control the allocation of delegates over the larger group of primary voters.
Godhumor
(6,437 posts)Hillary won those areas handily tonight.
MFM008
(19,782 posts)Caucuses were Saturday morning 10 thirty. Half my family couldn't sit there for 3 hours. They ran out of ballots , there was no room, you could barely breathe.
Now today we all filled out our ballots Like We Will in November. A ballot was sent to every person in Washington state whose registered and everybody voted or had the opportunity to vote, that's the difference,
today's vote is exactly like November is going to be.
pugetres
(507 posts)is required to put the names of ALL candidates on the primary ballot even if only the the republicans have a primary.
Most Dems know that and didn't even bother wasting the stamp or gas to get their ballots turned in.
But, I imagine that a lot of conservatives (knowing that they have their presumptive candidate in Trump through process of elimination) had a lot of fun filling out the Democratic selection section instead.
They are checked you know. They look at those signatures. My sister and I have very similar writing and in 2012 they contacted us to make sure whose signature it was on the ballot and made my sister sign an affidavit that that was her signature so don't think they just threw these things in the trash.
KingFlorez
(12,689 posts)A solid win in Washington is a good sign for Clinton moving into California.
mythology
(9,527 posts)He wins caucuses where fewer people vote. California has a primary and an electorate with lots of blacks and Hispanics. That doesn't bode well for Sanders.
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)Just look to Oregon.
I'm not saying that team Hillary shouldn't be happy and if it was me I'd run with it as well but we need to be real.
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fun n serious
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fun n serious
(4,451 posts)Folks voted and proved NO
chascarrillo
(3,897 posts)The caucus reflected the state of the race a couple of months ago among people motivated enough to go out to a caucus. The primary reflected people who sent in a ballot, paying for their own stamp to send it in, knowing that the result would not be accepted by the Democratic Party.
I don't think that either is a good indicator of how CA will vote.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)so really I cannot tell.