It has definitely been a brutal primary.
I think it’s extra intense this time because people feel like they are at the end of their rope with our government, and then on top of that a section of those people believe that their candidate is the only answer to the problem, and that the other candidate is a continuation of the problem, and vice versa.
I’m not trying to put myself above the fray, because I have been in the fray I’ll admit. But I’m fearing that neither candidate is an actual answer and in the end we are all going to be divided and conquered.
“But I’m fearing that neither candidate is an actual answer and in the end we are all going to be divided and conquered.”
http://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/a-republican-nomination-process
The above link is to a rather long (but interesting) article after the failed Romney campaign. The writer blames much of it on the Republican nomination process that we have now that slogs on for so long making the nominee bruised, bloody and broke by the time of the REAL campaign.
He argues going back to the pre-1972(?) way of nominating Republicans which was via caucus type elections - and getting an early consensus on the nominee.
That is my fear as well. The dims will use all the in-fighting to their advantage. We can’t have a third term for Zero.