You have primaries AND caucuses??? How does that work?
Badly đ
Basically some snafu (honestly not sure of the details) means the state has to keep printing ballots for the primary even when the party has said in no uncertain terms that they will pay no attention to the primary results. So people keep throwing their votes away in the primary, and we get split decisions where the primary goes one way, and the caucus goes the other way, and people who voted in the primary suddenly realize this system sucks because the caucus is all that matters. But just because itâs completely meaningless doesnât mean it doesnât factor into a lot of political commentary about mandates and demographic differences, the political anachronism of caucuses, etc. We get it every. four. years.