2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Why do you mock people for wanting to vote? When did you lose what makes you a democrat? [View all]MineralMan
(146,286 posts)life, I lived in California, where I was always registered as a Democrat. Here, I'm a member of the DFL Party and am active in that party. I am a Democrat. I have always been a Democrat. I will be a Democrat until I die.
I'm quite familiar with Minnesota primary caucuses, as well. You don't have to be registered as a Democrat, but you do have to pledge to support the goals of the DFL party to participate in those caucuses. I suppose someone could lie about that, but I doubt that anyone does, really.
By the way, as you know, Bernie Sanders won here.
And now, we're changing over to primaries, starting with the 2020 election. We've all finally realized that caucuses exclude too many people from the process. Now, as always, in our primaries, you'l have to decide which party's ballot to vote on. It will still be an open process. I don't mind that, really, but New York is not Minnesota the people there, through their elected legislators and party leaders, have decide to have a close primary. Their choice, not mine.