Hillary playing tricks in Polk County!

[JimDandy]

211. That same outcome also can be effected by a GOTV drive. Sadly, the WA Dem Party neglected

to do it this primary season. They didn't even get a Coordinated Campaign worker in our area until a few days ago. She is only signing up volunteers and won't be doing GOTV until after the caucus. Doesn't make me want to go "hhmmm", because it's pretty well rumored that this has been in an effort to deny Sanders votes, since a larger turnout consistently favors him. In years past we already would have done massive campaign drives on all the college campuses (EWU, WSU, UW etc) by now, because students, or course, normally favor the Dem Party. Nada, zip, zilch this season.

And who came up with the idea to make caucus goers drive miles this year to caucus in large buildings (schools, colleges) by cramming all the precincts in one legislative district into it and making voters stand in long, long, long lines to do so (think Iowa and Nevada chaos)? In years past, caucusing was always done in neighborhood buildings. Why the sudden change? Could it, again, be to try and deny Sanders a large turnout, because his constituents are students and lower income people who may not have a car. They used to just walk, sometimes with their children in tow, to their neighborhood caucus to vote in the primary.

I worked with the VoteBuilder database some years back when it was in beta version in WA. Wasn't a lot of trouble then. Should be even better now.

The WA Republican Party in WA seems to be happy using the Primary Election as their vehicle for selecting delegates. WA Dem Party needs to be doing that also. We can't just cede to their party the independent voters who won't participate in the caucus system because they, like most people, want an easier way to vote. We can build the party without the caucus system using a great GOTV as outreach and having active offices where people can congregate and work together between conventions.