What Matt said:
I didn't like caucuses before Iowa, and I still don't like them now. In addition to the participation barriers, caucuses make outcomes overly dependent on "caucus math" rather than actual levels of support. For the purposes of the actual campaign, however, Hillary Clinton could have made her principled objections to the caucus method of delegate selection known back when she was first lady in 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, and 2000 or as an influential U.S. Senator in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, or 2007. Instead, though, she seems to have developed some outcome-driven objections after losing a series of caucuses.
I realize I may be setting unrealistically high standards here, but all I ask is that our leaders be consistent. Changing your mind about things is wonderful, of course, but when you do so, you better have a better explanation than personal convenience or political self-interest. Surely we can do better than that, can't we?
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