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Originally Posted by SecretMethod70
It's true, there are lots of issues with caucuses, but there are also benefits to them. The fact that voters have the opportunity to support a second choice is a huge deal, and something that is sorely missing in American elections. There are certainly better ways to accomplish it, but at this very moment I'm just thankful that sometimes, somewhere, voters have the opportunity.
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It can certainly be argued that the second choice option has democratic benefits. Whether or not someone feels that way is one thing, but since that isn't how elections are won in America at large, I think it is a poor way to run party elections even if they excepting all the problems in the actual use of them here. It's all good and well that people get a second choice candidate, but when the entire point of the process is to select a party candidate to run against another party candidate in a one on one election (effectively if not actually always one on one).