Is it me, or is this the stupidest way to choose a candidate? I am sick of Iowa, I am sick of New Hampshire. Just get on with it.
Me too, Iowa is Iowa and NH is basically a failed state.
And I am sick of all the electioneering!
The whole campaign thing has turned into a slush fund for advisors and the media. We need reform. A short campaign season, restrictions on donations, and it should not be allowed to report exit polls or final tallies until all polls are closed coast to coast. All vote counting procedures subject to random unannounced checks by teams with agents from both parties.
No, it's not just you. I am also sick of Iowa and New Hampshire. Every four years I have to listen to months and months of corn farmers in Iowa and dairy farmers in New Hampshire prattle on and on over a cup of coffee at some no-name diner in some no-name town. I'm tired of presidential candidates in flannel shirts and boots trying to "get down" with the average Joe in flyover country - in August - with the primary season still half a year away.
I used to live in Massachusetts and we used to drive up to New Hampshire to see what presidential candidate we would run into at some Dairy Queen or roadside clam shack, reassuring some 80-year-old that they would fight for them to keep their social security. It was as predictable as seeing the foliage in fall.
The candidates spend nearly a year courting every possible voter personally in those two states, right down to petting the puppies and kittens. Then when Iowa and New Hampshire are over, they rush through the rest of the early states in a blur, and by the time the snow melts and before half the country even gets to have a say, the nominee is already pretty much a done deal.
Sorry Texas, sorry California. We know you are big states and all. But by the time the primaries come your way, the nominees have already been chosen. But hey, go ahead and vote in your primary anyhow. It will be fun.