When did Texas change to this crazy primary & caucus thing?

[napi21]

I lived in San Antonio for 6 years so I only experienced one presidential vote, but they didn't have this silly 2 vote thing then! When did they change, and for god sake WHY?

[blogslut]

1. Supposedly it's been this way for a damned long time

It's just that we never mattered much in a primary before.

We get to vote twice. We finally matter. Yeehaw!

[islandmkl]

3. get to vote twice? What? did the Daley's come from Texas?...

LBJ only liked to let dead people vote once.

[ashling]

7. I guess you would say that it is

halfway between a Washington State type caucus and a straight primary. But the percentages used to devide into caucuses is decided in the general primary.

[blogslut]

13. Good old LBJ

But as you probably know, we vote first, and caucus second. Two votes! Who knew?

[texas_indy]

2. Been this way for a long time. Most folk wouldn't go even if they knew anyway. (nt)

[TexasLady]

4. I had to post in Texas Forums about it

Because I was so confused!

[ashling]

5. Its been like this as long as I remember

In 1976 I voted for Fred Harris in the primary and then went to the precinct meeting and ended up as a delegate for Jimmy Carter to the Congressional District convention. In the late 80s I was a orecinct chair in the Woodlands and we did the same. After the election there is a precinct meeting where the votes from the primary elecftion are tallied. Then you caucus to choose delegates to the convention.

We used to call it a precinct meeting or precinct convention to choose delegates to the nexyt level.

[napi21]

6. WOW! I swear I NEVER heard anything about it when I lived there!

I even had one of our corp. attorneys running for judge and he never mentioned anything about any caucus...just kept reminding everybody to GO VOTE!

[ashling]

14. It is not a caucus in the sense of Iowa or Washington

It is a meeting or convention in which persons are chosen as delegates based upon the numbers from the election. This is done precinct by precinct. Those delegates go to their county or senatorial district conventions then the choose delegates to the state convention. The number of delegates is determined on the basis of the general primary election.

[Unsane]

8. What is a primart?

Is it like K-Mart or Walmart?

[napi21]

15. OK. Sorry. I fixed it. Had a finger stutter or something I guess. n/t

[crispini]

9. Been like this for a looooooooooong time.

Just never really mattered that much before, so nobody went.

Had 10 people at my caucus 2 years ago. Expecting 80 now. :D

[MoonRiver]

10. Is a "primart" like a Walmart, except you buy political favors instead of Chinese trash?

If so I can see why Obamaman excels in that format! :evilgrin:

[kerry-is-my-prez]

11. They need to fix this primary system in the Dem Party - it should go by popular vote

one person = one vote.

[ashling]

16. It is - the precinct meeting

basically chooses the persons who get to be the delegates. The numberr of delegates is determined by the vote in the general primary.

Its not really any different than any other state that has a general primary. This just the way the individual delegates are chosen.

This also begins the process for getting issues before the platform committee.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

12. I know it's been this way since 1988

That's as far back as I go so I don't know about before then.