Show up and get involved and be the real base of the party and you get to help select, maybe even be one of these folks, and trust me you will not see Fox News or NBC or Murdoch or Hillary or superdelegates override or buy your vote.

Anyone can become involved in Democratic Party politics. It's easy.

Texas is strange in that we are negotiating with the DNC about keeping the Texas two step which means that part of the delegates will be selected based on the primary results and part based on caucuses. In 2008, Hillary Clinton won the primary but President Obama won more delegates due to the caucus system. I was the chair of my precinct caucus where we had 400 people show up on a Tuesday evening. We finished at 10 PM that night and I was still doing paper work for a day or so afterward.

I have feeling that the DNC will not allow the Texas two step but we will see. In any case, I am thinking about trying for a slot to the DNC

It takes a lot of time, though. I know Minnesota, but looked into Iowa and New Hampshire this morning, along with Nevada, another caucus state.

Our precinct caucuses get a much larger turnout in presidential election years. I1m not sure what to expect this year, but we should have plenty of people voting in the straw poll.