Who schedules the primaries so this one is early, that one is latter? Who punishes states by stripping them of their delegates for trying to move their caucus/primary up to an earlier date? Who decides if it is a primary or a caucus? Who decided if a primary, in an early state, is open and that one is closed? Who decides to hype the media coverage of say a certain Candide squeaking out a win in state A and ignoring him getting blown by double digits in State B? How is it that the media spends 90% more time talking about Candidate A, who finished 4th in Iowa then they do talking about Candidate B who pulled a surprising 3 place finish? Why do party politicians line up, like good little whores, to all endorse a specific candidate? Who decides the timing of those endorsements to make sure they have maximum impact on the voter's?
The process is manipulated. It just done in such a way most of you never notice.
This habit of adopting contempt without knowing is a serious weakness in Americans. We are all so sure that everyone is exactly as our teachers and or our TVs tell us.
No, powerful people are powerful mainly because they know how to make their own luck. Powerful people try to keep that power. It not some evil plot where the faceless evil ones sit around and pick who will win this or that election. But by controlling the scheduling and structure of things the connected make an outcome more likely.
That one of the reasons nothing ever changes. People automatically dismiss this sort of information as "kooky". The author does have some valid points. There is some nuttiness to this article sure, but there is some validity to the points being made.
The Primaries are rigged. That doesn't mean they are not honest competitions but that they are structured and gamed as much as possible so that the Party Chiefs, not us peons, pick the candidate.
You all would be wise to not sneer so quickly at what you are being told. The author gets it more right then wrong.
Well said.
Good analysis. The election process has become a beast, just like the IRS. They both need to be dismantled, overhauled and simplified.
It’s possible that the Dem winner may not win because SUPER DELAGATES may overide him. What the hell are super delegates??? Who created that? What happened to VOTES? And the pundits talk of these machinations as if they were written in the Bible.