Neither Iowa nor Nevada are “primaries,” they are caucus states.
“Neither Iowa nor Nevada are “primaries,†they are caucus states.”
As is Colorado. I’m intimately familiar with caucuses: I attend, have been elected to County, subsequently elected to Congressional House District, and have also been elected to State.
The further up the chain you get, the more valuable your vote. At District, I mustered other delegates from other precincts and helped my guy prevent the other candidates from reaching threshold to appear on the primary ballot, thereby avoiding a primary altogether, allowing my guy to proceed directly to campaigning against the incumbent Marxist, whom he promptly beat, and after a couple of House terms, went on to the U.S. Senate in our state.
Sadly, the SOB was a fake conservative turncoat and stabbed us all in the back. He was one of those pious family-man, “principled conservatives” so beloved by some here. His turn was quite sudden, so I suspect the powers-that-be might have gotten some juicy pics or video.