I'm Beginning to Question the Intelligence of Democratic Party Leaders

The Nevada caucuses have given me lots of reasons to question the intelligence of Democratic Party leadership.  It's pretty discouraging and may be the final nail in the coffin for any of the existing candidates, at least from my perspective.  Bloomberg may have been on to something by avoiding the first four primaries, considering that two of them were caucuses.

The concept of a caucus is actually pretty cool.  A group of people get together, they split into different voting groups, and try to encourage one another to join their group.  The 15% viability concept was also interesting.  If a candidate couldn't get 15% of the vote, then their supporters could move on to a different group.  It's actually a much more complex version of ranked choice voting.  And clearly a methodology that the Democratic Party has been unable to fully comprehend and manage.

Why not just use ranked choice voting?  It would have been a much simpler approach to what the intent of caucuses was.  It would have been pretty simple to administer such a voting process.  Certainly much simpler than administering the complex goings on of a caucus.  While on paper the idea of the caucuses seems pretty straightforward, it's much more complicated and difficult to actually carry out.

The other thing about caucuses is that they are prone to peer pressure. That doesn't strike me as democratic.  What happened to the sanctity of the voting booth?  What happened to one person, one vote?  I actually hope that this will be the end of caucuses.  If either party wants to trim the lower hanging candidates and draw out the leading candidates sooner, then they should go to ranked choice voting.

Since the voting is confused once again, and the number of precincts reporting keeps going up and down, as do the numbers, the candidates are once again giving positive speeches.  They're ignoring the results and just campaigning.  I still like listening to Pete Buttigieg.  He's the most articulate of all of the candidates, republican or democrat.  I still like Mike Bloomberg, who could manage circles around anyone in the Democratic Party leadership.  I still have a decision to make.