PRIMARY PROCESS: Go Florida!

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I was just bitching what a screwed up process we have in this country to pick presidential candidates and then…FLORIDA WILL NOW DESTROY THE SANCTITY OF THE 2012 PRIMARY CALENDAR.

The earliest primaries and the ones that candidates MUST campaign in and win are in Yahoo infested IOWA. New Hampshire takes second place which is absurd for such a small, very independent minded state to matter at all in the grand scheme of things. South Carolina is next and determines how a candidate holds up in the South. Nevada follows and I have no idea why since it has a small population and only cares about gambling.

BUT these states protect their early primary turf because it grants them importance on the national stage and brings in millions of dollars spent by each candidate’s campaign. Are these states somehow representative of the U.S. population…hell no…and that is why it is so absurd to have the early primaries in these bullshit states.

Each political party controls when and where the primaries are held and I remember Michigan being punished last time when it tried to hold a primary out of sequence (they were not seated at the convention).

Arizona had tried to jump ahead last time but now FLORIDA is now looking at the end of January to hold the primary and Florida is a state with importance because it has the largest elderly population and because it has a population at all and should be instrumental in picking the candidate for president.

I am told the other states will just move up their primaries in January making it appear that candidates will have to campaign over the holidays and that is plain stupid; that’s what we need during the holidays.

Now I hear that Colorado, Georgia and Missouri are angling for an early primary; all the states cannot have primaries in January, you have to give the candidates time to campaign in those states.

I guess it can get out of hand and the political parties need to keep some semblance of order in the nominating process BUT I feel that there are states that represent a broad swath of the American population and there are states that do not…Iowa being a very good example of a state that is very “narrow” in scope and should not play a role in the nominating process.

The political parties owe it to all Americans to make the process fair and representative and NOT give the media the role of appointing the candidate for the highest office in the world.

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