It's exciting to see so many people get involved with our political process. We have always been a nation whereby as little as one third of the eligible voters actually get out and vote even when the president is being elected. But we are all feeling quite weary about it as well. Democratic party officials were clearly not prepared for this kind of "surge" of people. It's very easy to complain about the process and, I admit, I am one of the complainers.
One of the resolutions presented was to abolish the caucus system and just go with the popular vote results. That was a very popular resolution at 7pm after those that remained had been there for eleven hours. It seems to be a crazy system; allowing people to vote in the other party's primary, asking voters to vote once and then come back at night to vote again.
If the purpose is to get more people involved with the system I think it worked. If the purpose is to give party insiders more control over the outcome it didn't work. I wonder if any of the Republicans who voted in the democratic party primary became delegates and attended the senate district conventions?
Well, as one of those who complained openly about the chaos on March 29th I decided that I should offer my help for future events so I applied to be part of the process as a precinct chair. Like I always tell my employees, "Be part of the solution not part of the problem". I hope many of you choose that as well.
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