The turnout for the Kansas GOP caucuses today? Spell it H-U-G-E

After participating today, I'm more convinced than ever that a caucus system is the way to go. We need more locations next time but otherwise it was awesome. Lots of excitement, lots of new volunteers, candidates of all kinds promoting themselves to guaranteed voters... it was great! I would be very upset if my lawmakers wasted my tax dollars on a primary after seeing how a well run caucus can work In fact, I'd be happy to see the August primaries replaced with a caucus system!

I'm formerly from Iowa and they use the caucus format. Good to hear that someone understands the excitement of a caucus.

The one defining thing I like about it is that it is a comfortable way to introduce young people to voting. As a teacher, I've been to both Democratic and Republican caucuses in Iowa. Both are genuinely interested in including young people in the process.

In fact, both parties have a junior caucus for underage voters and it helps to transition them into the caucus system as they shadow eligible voters.

I'm no longer in education, but I hope Kansas does that too. And I hope they keep the caucus system because of that.

last Tuesday and again today - puts your faith back into the system a little bit. Just wish they could have causus later in the year, like April or May when better weather prevails. As previous comments indicate, the caucus would be a good opportunity for the youth to learn about a system they will enter in few years. If we could also do a better job about educating youths on personal finance and what happens with tax dollars when TIFs, Star Bonds, tax incentives, tax rebates, tax credits, etc. are used, then I would be a more happy camper too.

When the Dems outdrew you 2-1?

What does that make Tuesday night's turnout, Mr. Kraske?

The most undemocratic process in this country are causcuses as they are currently conducted in presidential primaries. It's cute to here some idiot from Iowa (or Kansas) say "we had to walk 10 miles to the caucus, and then it was a 2 hour process after that..."

What a bunch of idiots that would consider that anything remotely democratic? Unless of course you think back to buggy whips and times before modern voting processes. It made sense then, and it's absolutely stupid now.

87,000 people in Iowa, and a couple thousand people in Kansas speak for their states.

Nice.

MO got out over 1,000,000 people to vote in their primary last week. Kansas got maybe 20% of that, because of their small-minded caucus system.

Democracy is furthered when people can vote conveniently and not be excluded because of their work schedules or ridiculous travel requirements.

Hey Jeetz, I'm glad that's works for your pro-white, white collar, implicitly racist agenda - the caucus process instantly excludes what you would consider to be the dregs of society - servers at restaurants, people working two jobs, and people that only care marginally about the political process.

It allows the predomintaly white, more affluent super-engaged folks to control the process.

Think I'm exaggerating? Look who won the Kansas GOP nomination. And what state wants to teach creationism as science? And what state has Krazy Kris Kobach as its GOP Chairman?

And what GOP party has Phil Kline as it's darling?

What's the matter with Kansas? It's your small-minded, passively-agressively racist, exclusionary agenda.

Effin A glad I live in MO. we have problems, but at least we're not Kansas!

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Democrats bring in 37,000 on a cold, wintry weeknight.

Republicans bring in 20,000 on a mild, sunny Saturday.

Steve Kraske is right. Clearly, results like this -- in a solidly "red" state no less -- can only be good news for Republicans.

Huckabee/Brownback in '08!

"traditions" get passed down in families, from old people to young people.

Like the reverence for "causcuses".

Let's look at the results. Here are the percents of the African-American population in a few states:

2.08% in Iowa
5.63% in Kansas

11.18% MO
13% nationally.

huh.

First of all, Iowa & Kansas are not the only caucus states.

Also, caucuses are very democratic. Democracy is a process as is the caucus.

You're getting democracy and efficiency mixed up. Primaries are efficient. No one ever said democracy was efficient.

I didn't go to the caucus because I judged it wasn't worth my time, given Romney had dropped out and McCain being a shoe-in for the nomination. Even so, in my research earlier this week, I determined that the caucus was a big waste of time and hardly a caucus at all. Granted I wasn't there, but from the description at the GOP caucus website, there was just one opportunity to fill out a secret ballot -- no vote shifting. Basically it worked like a primary, but you have stick around for a couple of hours listening to annoying people trying to tell you how to vote. What's the point? If your not going to have a real caucus with multiple ballots THEN JUST DO A PRIMARY AND GET IT OVER WITH. Also move it up to Super Tuesday so my vote can actually count for something. At least the Kansas Democrats figured that one out.

Mainstream said:

"Hey Jeetz, I'm glad that's works for your pro-white, white collar, implicitly racist agenda - the caucus process instantly excludes what you would consider to be the dregs of society - servers at restaurants, people working two jobs, and people that only care marginally about the political process.

It allows the predomintaly white, more affluent super-engaged folks to control the process.

Think I'm exaggerating?"

Yes -- you're exaggerating.

But no need to worry. Your "push-button" world will prevail, eventually. And your whole life will be a series of buttons right at your finger tips. You won't have to go out and meet people face-to-face like in the caucus system. Face-to-face meetings are so archaic anyway, right? It's so darn inefficient, too.

In fact, people are inefficient. Don't need them anymore. Who needs people, right?

Think I'm exaggerating?