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Evening Open Thread: The Blogs on the Primary |
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Blue Texan over at Firedoglake is calling on superdelegates to end this thing:
We just went through another grueling primary in which tens of millions of dollars are spent, both sides beat the crap out of each other substantively debating their many policy differences over trivial personality shit and behaved in increasingly demeaning ways (Crown Royal?! Bowling!?!?!) and the net result is — yet again – a virtually unchanged delegate count.
Enough. Seriously.
I’m on board. It’s time for this to end. So let’s end it already. May 6th has got to be it.
Looking at this thing a bit more long-term, jayackroyd at The Agonist is looking for some ways to improve the primary process. Clearly, the system we’ve got now isn’t good at doing much of anything. We need something that makes sense and that can reliably and fairly choose a nominee who inspires and who can win. My favorite suggestion: Take the 6 states that were closest in the general election last time around (the “swing” states), and have them vote - smallest to largest - once a week. Then everybody else gets to go on Super Tuesday.
And lastly (and not primary related), our good friend Matt Browner-Hamlin is off to Alaska to work on Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich’s Senate campaign. With any luck, he’ll be taking corrupt Ted Stevens’ seat in November. While I’m sad to see Hold Fast go dormant for a while, I’m sure Matt’s going to do a bang-up job out there in the tundra. Congrats!
What’s on your mind tonight? This is an open thread!
I think damn near any alternative primary system would be better than what we’ve got now.
Rotate by swing states? Sure, I’m down.
Rotate by region? Sure, count me in.
National primary day? Sure, with some reservations.
And Texas needs to get their heads on straight.