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Originally Posted by HockeyIlliterate
In what way(s) is a caucus "the least democratic way to choose a party leader"?
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Very simply in favours activists and lowers voter turnout. So if your goal is to reflect the will of the people they are a poor mechanism of determining that. In Washington they have both a caucus and a primary. The caucus counts for delegates and the primary doesn't. Sanders won the Caucus easily whereas Clinton won the primary.
That Sanders out performed his polling in all Caucus states demonstrates that caucuses poll enthusiasm rather than preference of an electorate.