Other than comparing apples to oranges to grapes, I suppose it’s fine. On a strictly factual level, the article is full of error. I.e., the RNC doesn’t pick the candidate. IA is not a GOP state.
This sounds like the Dems complaining after ‘00 about that pesky Electoral College. The name of the nominating primaries game is collecting delegates. New York has more delegates than Wyoming. The name of the presidential election game is electoral votes. Ditto NY v WY. It’s not about the popular vote, or having a greater number of states in your column, it’s about how many delegates/electoral votes the candidates get. Whoever gets the most wins.
Conservatives could not get their act together behind anyone, they were having too much fun ripping frontrunner Rudy Giuliani apart. SO now they can live with the consequences. Our next president will be either John McCain or Hillary Clinton or Barrack Obama. There are no other viable alternatives remaining. Ronald Reagan is not coming back.
Conservatives didn’t get a chance to vote for any conservative until SC, where only Thompson was still standing and Huckabee had the evangelical wing locked in his camp...
So, how is it that NO conservative made it past SC, which was the first conservative primary in the process? (other than Wyoming of course)
Before conservatives could vote, there was nobody left to vote for. How did that happen in a matter of four early primaries?