Team Romney can use all the good news they can get, and winning the Maine caucus is a nice bit of news. The wide margin of victory, and big turnout, are also good signs. Of course, whether Romney actually gets half or more of the state’s 21 officially unbound delegates to the convention remains to be seen.

I’m left asking the question I was wondering on Friday – why have a caucus if you’re not going to bind the delegates? What’s the point?

If the Republican party considers electoral reform in its primary process for 2012, I’d like to see more straight-up primaries and fewer obscure caucus/county-then-state-delegation rules. Local parties are more powerful in caucuses, though, so I imagine they won’t give up this power without a fight.