Primaries truly do little for party building. Caucus are almost 100 percent party building.
He's right, you know. Caucuses don't simply favor those who follow politics closely, they actually create them too. And that's what baffles me most about Clinton's objection to them. Caucuses create party activists. Isn't that what a political party wants?
And this suggestion from Kos, one I hadn't heard before, strikes me as worth some serious consideration:
Perhaps Texas DOES have the best idea -- a hybrid system that has both a primary, with the broader access it offers -- and a caucus for party-building purposes. Make the primary a mail-in ballot for maximum participation (like Oregon), and perhaps we'd be on to something.
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