The Presidential Primary\/Caucus process is broken.<\/p>\n
Florida moved their primary in January, and the Democratic National Committee said, basically, “Get the fuck back in line, or we’ll take your delegates — and your voice in picking the next presidential candidate — away from you.”<\/p>\n
Now Michigan is moving their primary into mid-January. Which means that New Hampshire has<\/i> to move further up, and Iowa will move further still.<\/p>\n
This is fucking ridiculous.<\/p>\n
Yes, states want to have some say into the nomination process. It’s no fun to live in a state where the primary has no effect on the nominee or the issues.<\/p>\n
But the end result of states crowding the front of the calendar to get a stake in the process is that the primary process has become front-loaded. We could very well have the nominees set by spring, with the actual conventions (and the traditional kick-off to the campaign season) four or five months<\/i> later.<\/p>\n
It’s going to take Congressional action, I think. No state may hold a presidential primary prior to 180 days prior to the general election. No more than five states may hold a presidential primary on a single day.<\/p>\n
Fuck Iowa. Fuck New Hampshire.<\/p>\n
The process has gotten out of hand. It’s broken. It needs to be fixed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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