Biden: "I Never Thought Hillary Was The Correct Candidate"

[Ken Burch]

169. If I had my way, we'd get rid of ALL the caucuses.

I'd have primaries in every state, with same-day re-registration in all states and extended voting hours on election day(which I'd also make into a two-day event to accommodate long-lines of people).

There are issues with the caucuses...and in many states there are issues with the primaries and their rules(in New York, for example, re-registration for presidential primaries closes six months before primary day. This is a major problem.

The reason I mention re-registration is that we should WANT new people to gravitate to this party and to see it as a place where they can work for their ideals. The party as an institution can only benefit from that.

The 2008 Clinton campaign had done badly against the Obama campaign in caucus states...doesn't it strike you as a little odd that, in eight years, they did not appear to have done anything to up their caucus game? It's not that difficult to win those things...you just have to bring large enough groups of your supporters to a room for a few hours(and yes, I do agree that people are forced to stay for the repeated fan-outs-if your candidate was viable and is going to the next fan out, you should be able to just leave and have your vote counted in support of your candidate on the later fan-outs). Yet HRC's primary organizers in '16 acted as if having to do that was an unfair burden on them.

It's no harder to organize for a caucus than it is for a primary. In many ways, it's easier, because you aren't having to bring tens or hundreds of thousands of people out to stand in line in the cold to vote.