{"id":92867,"date":"2026-06-04T07:15:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T12:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=92867"},"modified":"2026-06-04T07:15:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T12:15:23","slug":"for-the-50th-consecutive-election-season-calls-to-get-rid-of-minnesotas-caucus-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=92867","title":{"rendered":"For the 50th consecutive election season &#8211; calls to get rid of Minnesota\u2019s caucus system."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/elections\/2026\/06\/chaos-at-minnesota-conventions-reignites-calls-for-a-new-way-of-choosing-candidates\/\">https:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/elections\/2026\/06\/chaos-at-minnesota-conventions-reignites-calls-for-a-new-way-of-choosing-candidates\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dem candidates to big offices mostly ignore the Dem caucus. Our authoritarian GOP has been more obedient. <\/p>\n<p>So the existing undemocratic system is perversely good for democracy. It\u2019s still dumb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/elections\/2026\/06\/chaos-at-minnesota-conventions-reignites-calls-for-a-new-way-of-choosing-candidates\/ Dem candidates to big offices mostly ignore the Dem caucus. Our authoritarian GOP has been more obedient. So the existing undemocratic system is perversely good for democracy. It\u2019s still dumb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28,40],"class_list":["post-92867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share","tag-ifttt","tag-pinboard-jgordon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92868,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92867\/revisions\/92868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}