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Originally Posted by UGAalum94
So your caucus is more like the Republican one in Iowa in which you vote rather than build the consensus?
This may have been covered before, and I apologize, but what actually separates a caucus from a primary when it's a one person with one vote kind of thing? And then, if anyone is feeling up to it, what makes a state convention to decide delegates different from a caucus?
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Not really, but it was a bit of a mess. Ideally it would have been run, very similar to the Iowa Democratic caucus, and it kind of was at my location - they just split us up because the fire marshall came to our location. I'm guessing because we were lucky enough to have not only the mayor but a State Senator in our caucus. From what I've read on the Omaha World-Herald's website, some of the other sites were done more like straw polls.
I admire the Nebraska Democratic party for saying, "Hey let's try this caucusing thing." Unfortunately, there were a few problems, the sites were WAY too small. And there weren't enough of them. Granted Nebraska is a very Republican heavy state, but to only have 15 caucus sites for all of Douglas County which is the largest county in the state is crazy. The county to the south of me, which picks up some southern suburbs and is the third largest county and they only had one caucus site for the whole county!
RE: your question on what seperates a caucus from a primary. I know that it was explained somewhere earlier (back when IA was doing it). Each state may have slight modifications though. I'll edit my link unless someone has already responded. I can say that states with caucuses still have state conventions. One of my co-workers is a state delegate for Huckabee in Iowa.