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Posted on 04/25/2012 9:33:28 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
Edited on 04/25/2012 10:15:34 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Howdy everyone!!
Looks like a man who has no conservative accomplishments whatsoever (actually, no REPUBLICAN accomplishments whatsoever) is going to get the GOP nomination. A man whose record virtually matches Obama's in every respect, right down to his very own government mandated socialist compulsory health insurance program.
What were they thinking? It's going to be an interesting election season, but then we live in interesting times.
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Brett Baier for President. LOLOLOL.
LOL. Mercifully, we’re sort of ignoring those now.
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This gets on my nerves too. A significant amount of voters are disenfranchised because the nominee is usually already chosen by the time the primaries roll around to them. People in places like Texas and California basically have no say in who our nominees are and there is no reason for this.
I have been advocating for years that we have three "national" primary elections in years we are choosing a president. I put "national" in quotes because what I am really advocating is 50 separate state primaries held three times on the same day.
For example, the first primary should be held in early February. This primary is non-binding. Those who are able to garner 10% or more of the delegates move on to the second primary. This will weed out the "fringe" candidates. Also, all the delegates are now released for the second primary. Ideally, 3-5 candidates from will move on.
The second "national" primary should be held in mid April. This will give the remaining candidates about 10 weeks to campaign. In this primary, 50% of the delegates in each state will be up for grabs and so long as a candidate wins at least 25% of the vote in a given state, they will be apportioned delegates on a proportional basis and they will be binding - that is to say that the candidates will take these delegates to the convention. Any delegates receiving less than 25% in a given primary will in effect be "washed out" and will get nothing for that state. This will ideally narrow the field to 2-3 candidates as those with a very low total of delegates will likely run out of money and drop out at this stage.
This will set us up for the third and final primary (to be held in June) in which the other 50% of the available delegates will be awarded proportionally. Again, a candidate needs to get at least 25% of the vote in a given state to be awarded delegates. By now, we should have produced a candidate with enough delegates to be nominated at the convention.
I know I probably made this sound more complicated than it really is but this is really an elegant way to choose a nominee while giving every voter in the country an equal say in the process.
Excellent. :)
Ignoring ,but still keeping score.... :)
Wow!
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