Saturday, March 08, 2008

Texas Caucuses and will it ever end...

It looks like the media may have jumped the gun again. Hillary may have won the popular vote, but now it looks like Obama will come out of Texas with more delegates thanks to his win in the caucuses. Naturally it will take a few more months to sort out and Hillary's camp has already threatened to sue. Why is it so hard to pick a nominee? And what the hell is up with states having caucuses anyway? Having to stand up and announce your vote in public among your peers may sound like a good idea, but in reality are people voting their real choices? We constantly see how polls can be wrong before an election as well as the exit polls after. People will say what they think is the popular choice out loud and then vote differently in private. That is their right. And by holding a caucus they are losing that right. Enough already. There still is the issue of Florida and Michigan. For whatever reason they ignored the Democratic National Committee rules and set their primaries earlier. The DNC responded by saying the votes in those states will not be counted towards deciding who wins the nomination. The states went ahead anyway and now those votes are in limbo. Naturally Hilary is insisting the votes should count since she won both states. Their has been talk of having new elections, but the decision on who would pay for them is still undecided. It is estimated it would cost $25 million to hold another election in Florida alone. As an outsider I cannot understand what the states were thinking of? The DNC sets the rules. How can you not understand that? All this does is show just how messed up our election process has become. No wonder we get the candidates we do. What quality person would want to put up with all of this? So in the end we get what we deserve...

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