If you hear someone say “Oh, caucuses don’t mean anything” or “A caucus is not a real thing” or whatever, start asking them questions and you’ll quickly learn that they don’t know much about the political process. Very likely, they’ve never been to one. Have you? If you haven’t, and your state has them, give it at try!

State or nation?

Caucus means something quite different in Australia although still politics related.

In Oz the political party pre-selects its candidate swho then go to the election and the PM is chosen by the party and we have a Governer-General whose role is symbolic and the caucus is a group in the inner “cabinet” (or is it the outer one..)

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Whenever I hear the caucus word I keep imagining it comically and phonetically ie. a giant something made from cork. Which is oddly apt for politicians & the political sphere.