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Is New Hampshire Fit to Pick a President?
Townhall.com ^ | January 10, 2012 | Byron York

Posted on 01/10/2012 4:05:41 AM PST by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin
We have this same whining every 4 years. My biggest whine is the “open primary states” (all of them). Independents have no business voting in ANY party primary. If they are too gutless to make a commitment to a party, they have no business picking the party's candidate. And yeah, sure the order of the primaries should change and sure strip a state of their delegates if they don't play ball. It's really all about the money... look what gets spent in Iowa and NH.
41 posted on 01/10/2012 4:48:59 AM PST by rhombus
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To: Kaslin

NO

you have a primary election day for ALL states....then x months later you have general election day.

the parties would still have their conventions after the primary election and pick the candidates either by the most votes or have a brokered convention.


42 posted on 01/10/2012 4:54:53 AM PST by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Past Your Eyes

NY BLOWS....it is a leftist paradise...if my wife would leave her old/sick parents I would have moved to flyover country years ago....

I hate it almost as much as I hate New Hampshire.

but none of this has anthing to do with making the selection process fair for the whole country.

Winnow out the candidates after the 1 day national primary at the conventions.

spreading it out over months is counter productive in our Republic.


43 posted on 01/10/2012 5:00:55 AM PST by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Vaquero

I don’t want a brokered convention. I prefer people’s choice. Primary winner take all.


44 posted on 01/10/2012 5:01:15 AM PST by joesbucks
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To: joesbucks

OK fine, but do it all the same day.


45 posted on 01/10/2012 5:03:27 AM PST by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: All

until they close the primary, then no..


46 posted on 01/10/2012 5:04:51 AM PST by newnhdad
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To: Past Your Eyes

oh...ps

in NY only Republicans get the vote in the Republican primaries...

you granate brains need to get your schmitt together.


47 posted on 01/10/2012 5:05:23 AM PST by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Vaquero

I’m sure your reasons for hating New Hampshire are filled with merit. Is it just the primary or do you have other equally valid reasons?


48 posted on 01/10/2012 5:06:26 AM PST by Past Your Eyes (I'm not cut out to suffer fools like this.)
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To: Kaslin

Andrea Mitchell is too pock-marked to be on TV, yet . . . there she is.


49 posted on 01/10/2012 5:11:24 AM PST by Oratam
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To: Kaslin

The question is really not “Is NH fit to pick a POTUS”, but rather “How come the choices are so limited by Super Tuesday, when folks like me get a chance to vote?”


50 posted on 01/10/2012 5:17:44 AM PST by TheRobb7 (OBAMA 2012: NO TAX LEFT BEHIND)
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To: Past Your Eyes

I went to your lovely state once...

pretty, nice camping, I would go again.

the people there look and sound like anyone from New England. some are rock ribbed conservatives and there are a slew of liberal buttwipes too.

I do not hate New Hampshire....I do not like your primary system, as it effects the whole country for some reason. This is something that should be addressed with a constitutional amendment. By the look of things it is not on anyone of powers front burner, so relax. but it should be.


51 posted on 01/10/2012 5:29:41 AM PST by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Kaslin
Is New Hampshire too white, too old and too godless to play a key role in selecting the next president?

I'd vote for 'too liberal'. I'd prefer to see more conservative states vote first for a change.

52 posted on 01/10/2012 5:33:04 AM PST by Colonel_Flagg (Why, yes. I AM in a bad mood.)
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To: MachIV

The average American IQ is a mere 100. This explains their collective instinct to base decisions on what everyone else is doing and what the TV tells them to do, as well as their tendency to vote for who looks good on TV. 100 IQ’ers can barely understand the issues. PS -Advertisers know this and exploit it - why else is Madison Ave. a success?

I don’t have a solution, yet this is an unfortunate fact. Maybe we should bring back the days of having to own property to vote. It sounds very out there, yet has its merits. Property owners may not all have superior IQ’s, yet a person must have some intellectual vision/acuity to think ahead enough to own property. Also they care more and will be more informed on issues.

I am being somewhat facetious, but look at what is happening and the types “the herd” votes into office.


53 posted on 01/10/2012 5:34:51 AM PST by stonehouse01
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To: Ditter
Could someone give me the definition of evangelical Christian?

Believes the Bible literally.

54 posted on 01/10/2012 5:38:56 AM PST by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Eye of Unk

I hope she doesn’t have a FR account :-P


55 posted on 01/10/2012 5:53:59 AM PST by Cronos (Party like it's 12 20, 2012)
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To: stonehouse01

It should be that you should serve your country for 2 years in some capacity (military or social service — even tax-collectors, road builders, helping the aged etc.) and THEN you get the right to vote. If not, you don’t get to vote — you get all the other rights, but voting depends on you proving that you have the responsibility and experience


56 posted on 01/10/2012 6:03:27 AM PST by Cronos (Party like it's 12 20, 2012)
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To: Cronos

This is a good line of reasoning for winnowing out the completely uninformed and/or illegal counterfeit voting.


57 posted on 01/10/2012 6:08:41 AM PST by stonehouse01
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To: Eye of Unk

Awww, I was going to make a comment about Cow Hampshire. (That’s what a lot of people called it when I lived there.) You shouldn’t have said “herd instinct.” :)


58 posted on 01/10/2012 6:24:24 AM PST by smalltownslick
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To: rhombus

“It means they don’t seek Him inside an organization and/or a building”

Amen, to that brother.


59 posted on 01/10/2012 6:46:34 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: Vaquero

100% agreement


60 posted on 01/10/2012 7:00:33 AM PST by joesbucks
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