Kansas Democrats switch to May 2 party-run Primary.

[Minnesota Mike]

https://twitter.com/DecisionDeskHQ/status/1123963136321708032

[Minnesota Mike]

Another 2016 caucus state bites the dust.  Sanders won the 2016 caucuses 68-32.

[Gass3268]

This makes Iowa and Nevada the only states conducting anything that resembles an actual caucus, right?

You could make the arguement that only Iowa is as Nevada has implemented pretty robust early voting for their caucuses next year. Even Iowa is going to allow for "virtual caucusing," whatever that means.

[Minnesota Mike]

This makes Iowa and Nevada the only states conducting anything that resembles an actual caucus, right?

I think Maine for now (bill pending to switch to primary), Wyoming (?) and some of the territories still have old style caucuses.  

[Gass3268]

This makes Iowa and Nevada the only states conducting anything that resembles an actual caucus, right?

I think Maine for now (bill pending to switch to primary), Wyoming (?) and some of the territories still have old style caucuses.  

Wyoming also allows for absentee voting.

[Minnesota Mike]

This makes Iowa and Nevada the only states conducting anything that resembles an actual caucus, right?

You could make the arguement that only Iowa is as Nevada has implemented pretty robust early voting for their caucuses next year. Even Iowa is going to allow for "virtual caucusing," whatever that means.

I think Iowa's virtual caucusing could lead to a lot of confusion. IIRC the virtual caucuses will account for at most 10% of the delegates. What if half the participants caucus virtually and support a different candidate than the one who wins the in person caucuses?

[Mr. Morden]

https://twitter.com/FHQ/status/1123985395610456066

[The Mikado]

This makes Iowa and Nevada the only states conducting anything that resembles an actual caucus, right?

Wyoming. Maine also may or may not, but they've been leaning towards switching to a primary.

[The Mikado]

Sad as always. Caucuses are far more democratic than primaries - true democracy is participatory.

This is insane. Democracy isn't about preventing people who can't waste three hours on a weeknight to go to a high school gym and yell at their neighbors before voting in public with no secret ballot by literally walking into the corner of the candidate they support.

[UWS]

I think moving Kansas Democratic caucuses so late in early May is good news for Biden because it would prevent Sanders to get some major momentum early in the primary race with momentum in states with dominant white rural population while Biden would have already swept most if not all southern states as well as states with big urban population and ethnic voters like Texas, Illinois, Florida, New York, Pennsylvania, etc. and thus in early May the primaries would already seem to be decided in favor of Biden.

[Sestak]

Guys the true form of democracy is requiring someone to run a marathon once polls open, then give them their ballot once they've finished, and then they have until polls close to turn in their ballot - polls will be kept open for three hours. True democracy is participatory.

[eric82oslo]

This makes Iowa and Nevada the only states conducting anything that resembles an actual caucus, right?

You could make the arguement that only Iowa is as Nevada has implemented pretty robust early voting for their caucuses next year. Even Iowa is going to allow for "virtual caucusing," whatever that means.

I think Iowa's virtual caucusing could lead to a lot of confusion. IIRC the virtual caucuses will account for at most 10% of the delegates. What if half the participants caucus virtually and support a different candidate than the one who wins the in person caucuses?

Maybe they'll include ranked choice voting. Would be the only logical thing to do.