A caucus, to me, reminds me of nothing more than perhaps the most true and simple form of “democracy” in the United States–the town hall meeting. Any meeting where ideas and opinions are exchanged openly (even if the attendees are limited to a single party) is admirably democratic.

I think it would be interesting to witness an election where nominees were chosen through only caucuses. Because caucuses generally attract the more involved, educated, and well-informed party members, I think we would be presented with better nominees–maybe void a “Bush” or “Clinton” surname or maybe a true intellectual.

After all, when the nominees are chosen everyone gets to vote to decide between them. Call me an elitist, but I don”t know why non-party members are able to choose the parties’ nominees anyway.

Hey, at least I wouldn’t have to really suffer through this burdensome nomination process.