Tennessee voted in Super Tuesday this year, i.e. four days ago. On Wednesday I see a note in the paper that there’s a Democratic Party county meeting on Saturday, today. I thought it was the usual yearly everybody-come-and-pay-your-dues and elect officers ’n’ shit.

Turns out it was a caucus. Now I see people hither and yon getting their bowels in an uproar about how “Democrats are disenfranchising people with Evil Caucuses!!|!” blah blah blah, so I thought I would explain how this works here, since I suspect this is the same procedure used in a lot of states. It probably always has been, but it never got any attention until a year when the candidate wasn’t already determined after South Carolina or so.

So here we go. What the state Dem. Party people do is take the votes as cast last Tuesday and break them down by county.  Read more