It will take Democrats months to dethrone Iowa from its first-in-the-nation caucus status, if they do it at all. But the embattled caucus is now officially on trial.
It will take Democrats months to dethrone Iowa from its first-in-the-nation caucus status, if they do it at all. But the embattled caucus — one of the most enduring traditions in presidential primary politics — is now officially on trial.
In a Zoom meeting that marked the opening of months of talks about the nomination process, members of the DNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee criticized a caucus system that many Democratic activists complain limits participation. And they reopened long standing complaints about the favored status given to Iowa and New Hampshire, two heavily white states that kick off the presidential nominating calendar.
about engaging in a divisive, intraparty calendar dispute amid an already-difficult midterm election year, with some suggesting the party could put off altering the calendar until 2028. If Joe Biden runs for reelection, as he has said he plans to do, the Democratic primary in 2024 will not be competitive.Reordering the nominating contests is also a logistical nightmare, tangled up by state law and partisan legislatures, which often vote to set the date of their respective elections.
Molly Magarik, another member, said “there’s a lot of nostalgia and there’s a lot of ‘this is how we do things,’” but that “social norms are switching around what people feel comfortable going to. A caucus is incredibly intimidating to people.” But New Hampshire, by virtue of holding a primary — not an Iowa-style caucus —largely escaped the level of scrutiny that Iowa came in for on Saturday. Democratic Party activists have long complained that the caucus system employed by some states, including Iowa, reduces opportunities for elderly people, people with disabilities and those who work at night or on weekends to participate.
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