Hah, Bitches, not a Quote of the day because I just posted one of thems, still I can really sink my teeth into this one by McThag (who BTW renamed his blog with Snark over 9,000!)
Yaaaaaay! Another primary completely decided before I get to vote in it!
4th most populous state in the nation and our votes don’t matter because we don’t vote first.
A pox on Iowa, a pox on New Hampshire, a pox on South Carolina!
And given that McThag’s home state is an actual Swing state unlike the retard bus that is my home-state of Massachusetts, his point does make a lot of sense.
I personally think the Primary system is a total circus, first we have constant competitions on who gets to be first, and how early can they open the polls, second we have backwards and Byzantine states that still hold a Caucus which is about the most fruitless political effort an electorate can do, and Lastly we have the Electoral College because we know that life in the Central Farmlands is about as different as life in the Eastern Megalopolis, or the Sprawling Urban Jungle of LA…or for that matter States like Arizona and Florida that have taken a distinction of “God’s Waiting Room” getting a HUGE population of retired people from colder states looking to spend their retirement money and live someplace warm for the last of their days.
Of course without the Electoral College All a Presidential Candidate would need to do is get a strong majority in many of the largest cities (and Note that these cities almost exclusively vote for the most Marxist candidates) and the rest of the nation could vote against them at 100% and amount to nothing in the popular vote. If you live in Wisconsin, or Vermont, or the Dakotas, or West Virginia, or Upstate New York, or Northern Pennsylvania, or any part of Texas that isn’t Dallas or Houston, not only will you not get an ounce of a say who’s president, but you won’t even see or hear from a Presidential candidate unless you want to stroke them a check…and even then the most you’ll get is a Thank-You card because you bring NOTHING to the table.
We all see the electoral college as a good thing (unless you’re a commie living in LA or NYC because its those darn working people disrupting your Socialist Paradise!) but why is it that only two states, Iowa and New Hampshire (and Iowa is one of those Backwards Caucus states…who only managed to get their count right YESTERDAY!) and we have 2 candidates already dropped out (I won’t count Cain because he bailed before Iowa when his trim piece stepped forward).
Personally I think these idiots should be forced to choose how they split their time throughout the country, and then one Tuesday in June all the states hold their primary votes on whoever decides they have a shot. That way the flannel wearing Mountain Man in New Hampshire or the Soybean farmer in South Carolina, or the handful of fanatics with nothing better to do but caucus in Iowa don’t have MORE to say than anybody else.
Just doesn’t make any sense to me at all how we do it now.