DNC rules committee member: end the caucus System

[Jim Lane]

20. How, as a practical matter, can this be done except by state legislatures?

I'd like to see all the convention delegates chosen in primaries. The problem, as I understand it, is that some states' laws don't provide for holding a presidential primary. In those states, the only alternative is for the state Democratic Party to organize caucuses.

The OP says that "we must encourage primaries." Unfortunately, I don't know of anything the DNC can do beyond encouraging. Its only power would be the extreme step of refusing to seat convention delegates not chosen in a primary. That would completely disenfranchise the voters in the affected states, even more than caucuses do. The GOP in those states would obviously block any law to establish a primary -- they'd be happy to point out to voters how the Democrats wouldn't even listen to them -- so this threat would be completely ineffective except in the few states where Democrats have complete control, and maybe not even there.