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Ma’am, I think you have something on your face…
if you wanted your votes to count, your state’s party leadership shouldn’t have broken the primary rules.
Absolutely correct, Stu.
I hate to quibble
But Florida’s GOP
Set primary date
The state’s Democrats
Had no choice in the matter
Nor did the voters
The GOP has nothing whatsoever to do with when the Democratic party holds its primary. The Democratic party can set their primary date for whenever they want. there is nothing stating that the 2 parties have to hold their primaries on the same day.
Michigan’s party leadership didn’t consult with me, before they disenfranchised me.
I read about a whole bunch of different proposed compromises on how to split the delegates, but none of them mentioned anything about splitting the state party leadership. Splitting them lengthwise seems excessive, I’d like to have my state party leadership split off from their leadership positions.
45% voted for uncommitted in the Michigan primary, because that was our only not-Hillary choice. Our state party leadership didn’t seem to grok that if we wanted Hillary, we would have marked off her spot on the ballot.
We shouldn’t have umpteen months of pi$$ing contest for the primary. We should have ONE primary day for the whole nation.. I mean, what if (for example, first names that come to mind) more than half the Republicans in the states that had their primaries scheduled late wanted to vote for Giuliani? Under the current system, teh folks in NH & IO have a better choice of candidates than the Carolinas or Dakotas. How is that fair?
JMO
If we’d done that, then only those with name recognition would have won. Which would be Clinton on the Dem side and… I have no idea on the Republican side.
Guiliani if you go from early polls. That makes me shutter a bit… and almost makes me thankful for McCain winning. Could have definitely been worse.
My main beef about the knock-down-drag-out pi$$sing contest we have now is that the earlier voting states can seriously influence the later voting states. There are a lot of folks who will always vote for the winning side because the not-winning side seems to be a hopeless situation and why should they waste their vote? Or, in the case of a few folks I know personally, if they don’t like the fellow who seems to be winning, they refuse to vote at all. (I really don’t understand that logic.)
Of course, I’d also ban the nationwide voting night resuls being shown as they roll in as well. And for mostly the same reasons.
It’s a messed up system. I really wish I could find my magic wand that would make everything work while at the same time make everyone content (or at least not mad).
JMHO
Yes… this is true. But when all states vote at once, the big states basically decide the vote. Also, a candidate can basically claim that they’ll win in order to win. People may think that “everyone” will vote for someone when it’s actually not the case (Guiliani for example). In some ways, this may be better because it allows candidates to be tested and allows for smaller states to actually meet the candidates. If everyone voted at once, the candidates would go to California, New York, Ohio, Illinois etc. and completely ignore states like Rhode Island, Montana, the Dakotas. I agree that the balance is definitely skewed, but I’m not sure what is the best solution. The DNC tried in this election to make the early states representative of the voting base to try to avoid bias, but that kind of blew up for a lot of reasons. Mostly, that every state wants to be first and some states have traditions that have been written into their laws. Yeah, short of a magic wand I’m not sure that there would be a way to avoid biases associated with the order of voting and the associated anger of groups who feel that they didn’t get their fair say.
aw, that’s not nice to say about this lady…be nice.