Minnesota Should Dump the Caucuses and Go to a Voter Primary System

I was going to write up a big thing about how the caucus system in Minnesota is ineffective and needs to be changed, but this guy beat me to it. A quick review of info shows that Minnesota expects to break all records for caucus participation, and yet of Minnesota's 3,114,268 registered voters (as of Feb. 1, 2008), only about 4% (125,000) will participate in the caucus process. That compares to about 39% of South Carolina voters participating in its primary. Even in Michigan, where Democratic participation in its primary was down (likely because the Democratic Party stripped the state of its delegates because it moved it's primary up too far on the calendar), approximately 20.3% of the state's registered voters voted in the primary. You'll see numbers bigger than that in most states in tomorrow's Super Tuesday primaries.