PRIMARIES AND CAUCUSES
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- Created on: 08-06-18 10:20
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- Political meeting of party members
- Public vote
- PRIMARY AND CAUCUS SYSTEM
- Since 1972 McGovern-Fraser reforms BECAUSE
- Old system was corrupt
- Old system was undemocratic & non-participatory
- Old system was elitist
- Old system was undemocratic & non-participatory
- Old system was undemocratic & non-participatory
- Old system was elitist
- Old system was corrupt
- Types
- Open
- Opportunity for sabotage e.g. Operation Chaos 2008
- Closed
- Open
- Opportunity for sabotage e.g. Operation Chaos 2008
- Undemocratic and exclusionary
- Open
- Modified
- Closed
- Undemocratic and exclusionary
- Closed
- Winner-takes-all
- Proportional
- Undemocratic, wasted votes, 2016 Trump won all 58 Arizona delegates
- Proportional
- Open
- Republicans hold a basic majority vote
- Democrats hold a group vote, anyone without 15% moves groups
- 2016, 10 states held Republican caucuses
- 2016, 61 million participated
- 2016, 10 states held Democratic caucuses
- 2016, 10 states held Republican caucuses
- 2016, 61 million participated
- 2016, 10 states held Republican caucuses
- 2016, 10 states held Republican caucuses
- Democrats hold a group vote, anyone without 15% moves groups
- ISSUES
- Undemocratic?
- "Narrowing the field"
- Iowa's significance, 6/7 of Iowa's winners ended up winning Presidential nomination
- Obama spent $50 mil extra in Iow
- Wasted votes after Super Tuesday? [11 states]
- "Narrowing the field"
- Iowa's significance, 6/7 of Iowa's winners ended up winning Presidential nomination
- Obama spent $50 mil extra in Iow
- "Narrowing the field"
- "Narrowing the field"
- Low turnout [20-30%]
- Undemocratic?
- Wasted votes after Super Tuesday? [11 states]
- Wasted votes after Super Tuesday? [11 states]
- Undemocratic?
- Undemocratic?
- Assists momentum, beat or match expectations
- Since 1972 McGovern-Fraser reforms BECAUSE
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