Daily Topics - Wednesday January 13th, 2016
By shawnt56
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Our newest video is here! Watch RESTORATION - plus check out CARBON, LAST HOURS & GREEN WORLD RISING - narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio & Thom Hartmann, directed by Leila Conners
Hour One: Obama Calls Out GOP Obstructionism At the State Of the Union Speech...
Hour Two: Hillary Fights Dirty On Health Care...Bad Idea
Hour Three: The Socialist Response to the SOTU - Seattle City Councilwoman Kshama Sawant, Socialist Alternative
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I've explained the caucus system before, so I'll give a shorter version this time for Mary in Ouray, CO.
Instead of just voting for a candidate, the caucus is also for choosing delegates to move up the ladder of the levels of government, ending with the party's national convention. When you show up at the caucus, you declare which candidate you favor, then your precinct chooses a certain number of delegates to the next stage, proportionately to the number of supporters (i.e. votes) for each candidate. So Mary may end up being a delegate to her county assembly, state house district meeting and state senate district meeting, where she'll vote on who should be on the primary-election ballot (in Colorado at least) for those districts. From the house district meeting, she can become a delegate to the state assembly, and from there to the Democratic National Convention.
Unlike a simple primary, the caucus lets ordinary people be a part of the mechanics of the party.
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I didn't get the impression that Gov. Nikki Haley talked as if her jaw were wired shut. But then again, I saw The Force Awakens recently. Carrie Fisher was much worse. But this reminds me that Leia Organa is basically Hillary Clinton. Leia started as a princess while Hillary started as a first lady (both governmental but powerless positions), then they were both senators (and in fact both held both positions simultaneously for a time), then Leia became a general while Hillary became secretary of state (military and diplomatic counterparts of foreign policy).