Posted on 12/23/2014 10:44:44 AM PST by Mozilla
Soviet Red Hampshire Democrats make a sport out of crossing over in the primary and voting for the Republican they feel would be the weakest opponent in the general...they do it every election cycle. Their primary should be scheduled last.
Agree....the media never tire of these cheesy staged scenes of a candidate walking in to ‘surprise’ the rubes at the diner.
Red Hampshire treats primary time like a frickin' national holiday...media everywhere, restaurants and motels packed to the gills. Of course, since Red Hampshire doesn't have a widespread sales or income tax; they need to make a killing on the meals and restaurant tax when they can. Primary season can make or break you.
The early primary system is an anachronism just like the WH press corps. Both are holdovers from the era of trains when the candidates and the media could only be in one place and travel was time-consuming.
Both sides learned to use the system to convince the gullible that their choice was the only choice and we have see the disastrous results.
OMG...that is soooooo true!
At the risk of belaboring the point...so much of the public’s perception is based on the presence of a camera.
But the public never stop to consider HOW and WHY a camera was set up in the first place.
Those ‘candid’ photos of Jennifer Aniston at the beach are taken from the water pointing at the beach. This means, of course, that the photographer must have been wading out into the water to get his camera angle (at best) or was in a boat (at worst). In either case he would be VERY conspicuous.
By the same token, so-called photojournalists who get so-called award-winning photos must usually be positioned in advance to get lighting and a stable platform.
Presidential-campaign videographers are almost always positioned in a ‘camera pit’ i.e. a predetermined location. In our internet age this is a joke. And a fraud. It’s a damn shame that so many people are suckered by it.
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Arkansas primaries in 2008 and 2012 were held so late in the spring that the nominee was decided weeks earlier; thus, their presidential primary was a waste of time and money.
Of course, the RNC has punished states that tried to get ‘uppity’ [moving their primaries up on the calendar]. They withhold funding and cut the delegate allocations.
The GOPelites are determined to keep things as they scheduled. They work hard to get a schedule that gives preference to their candidate.
This is from Wikipedia's "United States presidential primary" page:
For the Republicans, the South Carolina primary is considered a "firewall" to protect establishment favorites and frontrunners in the presidential nomination race, being designed to stop the momentum of insurgent candidates who could have received a boost from strong showings in Iowa and New Hampshire. From its inception in 1980 through the election of 2008, the winner of the South Carolina Republican presidential primary has gone on to win the nomination.
If that has any resemblance to reality, it may not be what one would expect. South Carolina's quite a conservative state. Nobody is going to push New Hampshire or Iowa out of the earliest spots, but the having the South Carolina primary so early does give conservatives a voice in the process near the beginning and a way of offsetting whatever is wrong with Iowa or New Hampshire.
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