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In reply to the discussion: Nebraska superdelegate chooses Sanders [View all]pnwmom
(110,311 posts)caucuses the power to assign all the delegates, instead of the much larger, more representative and inclusive primaries.
And for some reason Bernie and his supporters support this -- even though in Washington, the voters strongly approved a referendum replacing the caucuses with a primary. And in a power grab, the party leadership went to court to assert its right to ignore the new law and to continue to assign all delegates through caucuses.
So WA voters get both -- the caucuses and the primary our taxes have to pay for, even though it doesn't assign any delegates. (The GOP does use it -- they were more responsive than the Dems, for once.)
Fortunately for the nearly 800,000 voters who participated in our primary (vs. the 230K in the caucuses), none of our superdelegates have announced that they will be switching from Hillary to Bernie as a result of the elitist caucuses.