Well, we attended the Democratic caucus this morning and I gotta say, "What a waste of time!" If you feel your vote is insignificant in a general election, you should definitely attend a caucus and just to see how much your vote DOESN'T COUNT!!!
Our precinct had only one delegate so we skipped the entire viability process, thereby, bypassing all the discussion and debate that is involved with that. Supporters for the various candidates were allowed to say something positive in support of their candidate but we didn't do any other discussing of the issues--just a bunch of fluff crap.
When we arrived at 11am there was mass chaos. The caucus location wasn't marked at all. I had to ask one of the representatives from the Republican caucus where the Democratic one was being held!!!
The main sign-in desk was a mess...five or six lines of people going in all directions. New voters, old voters, nobody knowing what to do and getting absolutely no guidance from the party organizers. We finally found our precinct room and got signed in just before they closed the doors on us. Yes, we stood around with everyone else for 45 minutes before finding out what we needed to do.
So we took a straight vote with the winner taking all--in our case, one delegate. Obama 22, Clinton 13, Edwards 2. Obama took the one delegate. Basically the other 15 people who showed up to vote in the caucus were totally meaningless and wasted their time.
Welcome to the great democratic process in the United States. Why Nevada doesn't do a primary instead of a caucus is beyond me. I haven't missed an election since I turned 18 and this is the first time I felt my vote didn't count for shit.
