CAUCUS VS. PRIMARY
Time is too precious
The extraordinary turnout at Tuesday night's caucuses points out the interest Minnesotans have in choosing the candidate for the fall election. I had to search for a place to park, walk some distance to the caucus site, make my way through throngs of people to find the room where my precinct was meeting in order to spend a few minutes voting for my choice for president.
I'm lucky that I was able to take this time. So many others weren't able to take time off work or school or from their other commitments to make it to a caucus during the 1 1/2 hours when their votes could be placed. Wouldn't a primary make more sense? Wouldn't that be much more democratic?
SHARON KINSMITH, New Hope
Fair and easy I propose having one national primary, which could be held in May. That would give every candidate six months to prepare. I went to a caucus when I was a child and it was the most boring thing I ever witnessed. I vowed never to have anything to do with one again.
SEAN M. CONWAY, HINCKLEY, MINN.
Consider the results I attended a caucus for the first time this Super Tuesday and sat in a hot schoolroom for over an hour in order to not have my voice heard. There was not a single delegate for my candidate.
It is too simple to say that I should have stood up to run as a delegate. I have an infant and a job, and my husband works nights. I would not be able to commit to attend conventions.
I believe that the system as it stands guarantees that certain segments of the population will be excluded. Perhaps this is why we keep on getting the same old same old.