Thick-Skulled Press

The media is pretending to have a hard time understanding why their predictions about the Nevada caucuses were wrong. They thought that Obama had a major coup with the endorsement of the culinary workers union and that he might win because of that. Well, he did win (despite the headlines, he got more delegates than Hillary), but not because of that.
To understand what really happened, which should have been predictable, one only has to see an account of what the voting was like and have a little goddamn common sense.

Nevada held its first ever real caucuses, which involve the most absurd and confusing democratic process used in this country, between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. on a Saturday and pundits expected every prostitute, bartender, and line cook in Vegas to either be able to wake up or get a two hour lunch break in order to show up, and then know how to caucus, and then vote for the guy the union told them to. Ridiculous.

So the real point is, why the fuck does Nevada have a caucus and not a normal election where people can take five minutes to vote in the afternoon or evening?