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Primary Reform
Superdelegates are to the primaries what the Electoral College is to the general. They were both created in a different time and place, and they both need to go.
We live in a world where information is at our fingertips and the people know who is who and what is what far more than they did in 1800 or 1972 even.
Let the people decide the election. It will not help or hurt either party. It will sometimes produce results that Democrats hate. But it's time.
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Because a political party is effectively a private enterprise, I could accept the continuation of the super delegate concept, but with these caveats:
One, only governors, congressmen, Senators, Presidents current and ex get votes as super delegates. No 20-year-old kids.
Two, the super delegates have their own primary with the number of delegates awarded equal to a mid-sized state. 800 people determining 20 percent of the vote is ridiculous.
June 8, 2008 7:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, I thought this was an anti-electoral college thread. I am all for the popular vote for the national elections.
Talk about a 50-state strategy! The electoral college is an outdated white elephant. Getting rid of it would also have the advantage of making it almost impossible to cheat the voting machines as the republicans have done in Florida and Ohio to skew the elections.
Not even Dick Cheney can get Diebold to skew all voting machines. (I don't think he can, anyway) He'll probably be dead by the time they figure out how to do that.
June 8, 2008 10:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, I'm all for the abolition of the Electoral College. But we should know going in that it's very likely that it won't produce an absolute positive result for the Democrats. And I think that's great! If we lose the vote of the people, we don't get to take office.
June 8, 2008 11:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
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