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To: DugwayDuke

First, I don’t mind a primary with candidates. I simply don’t award delegates to those who cannot go above 50% threshold.

Second, the delegate from your level is someone you know and help select. So, yes, I’d prefer a nation of locally elected delegates vote for candidates at a convention over the system in which someone getting 37% of a vote in New Hampshire gets vaulted by the media into the lead in a few more 37% and less wins in a few early states, and thus to the


87 posted on 06/07/2008 5:12:27 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain -- Those denying the War was Necessary Do NOT Support the Troops!)
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To: xzins

Let me think about that for awhile. The wife is getting rather impatient. She has stated as a guiding but non-negotiable ‘principle’ that we will work on her new flower bed today. I’ve got five cubic yards of river rock I’ve got to move for her. Luckily, I do own a tractor.

After I get that done, we’ve got to drive into town and buy some bushes and order some more rock. She’s just not at all concerned about our carbon footprint.


88 posted on 06/07/2008 5:36:41 AM PDT by DugwayDuke (A true patriot will do anything to keep a Democrat out of the White House.)
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