if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained?"
-- Chief Justice John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, 1803
Fill In The Blank Tuesday
by Hal_10000
Jesus, another primary? It seem like we’ve had 57 of these. Rather than comment on any of the remaining primaries, I’ll just preprint the Clinton Spin and you can fill in the blanks:
Senator Clinton’s stunning __-point win in __, despite having been outspent __-1 by the Obama campaign once again demonstrates that she is the only viable candidate for the November Election. Clinton has consistently won the hard-working, blue-collar white voters who are the backbone of this great nation while Obama just wins the latte-sippers and black people who are going to vote Democrat no matter what. We look forward to seating the Michigan and Florida delegations at the convention. If Barack Obama is very nice, we might let him stay a senator.
So that covers West Virginia, Kentucky and Puerto Rico, where I expect lopsided Clinton wins. Oregon, Montana and South Dakota will go for Obama, but we know they don’t really count.
It’s getting more fun, actually. Watching Clinton deny reality has a sort of morbid fascination to it. It’s like a spectacular car wreck only involving a clown car with about twenty guys in it.
Update: Here is the Clinton Spin Memo for today. Am I right or what? I did forget their strange claim that no Democrat has won the White House since 1916 without West Virginia. This is about as important as if they claimed that no Democrat has won without carrying the piano tuner vote. Discounting landslides and such, there are perhaps two election (’48 and ‘60) where this was pertinent.
Seriously, folks. It’s only a matter of time until Hillary observes that no black man has ever been elected President.
Comments
It seem like we’ve had 57 of these.
lmao !!!
Montana for Obama? That state is lily-white you can go for decades without ever seeing a minority other than a native American. But, the hoards of loggers and miners are gone, leaving nothing but university types with degrees in art history wandering the state looking for a handout…
eaving nothing but university types with degrees in art history wandering the state looking for a handout…
Zing!
What’s sad is that it makes you chuckle.. but it’s true.
don’t understand why we don’t just have national primary day for the presidential election. I mean, we can hold the presidential election in all states & territories on one day, why not the primaries?
I actually like the way the primary is done, since it gives outsiders a better chance and forces us to get to know the candidates. Think about this. If we did it all on one day, this year would have been Giuliani vs. Clinton. I’d have to move to Botswana.
But this stupid primary system we have leads to irrelevent states, and the stupid shit like MI/FL because they wanted to be more relevent. The only other alternative to single-day primaries is a primary lottery, where when the primary happens for each state is randomized, and someone goes to jail for pulling the crap the Democrat party leads did in MI/FL.
dwex, I agree with that 100% and have been advocating that for a while. Keep the primary system as is but shuffle the states around. It’s ridiculous that Iowa has such influence. Farm policy would be much smarter without that.
How bout a lottery that would establish which states have primaries on X dates?
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I don’t understand why we don’t just have national primary day for the presidential election. I mean, we can hold the presidential election in all states & territories on one day, why not the primaries?
Some kind of system designed around runoff elections. E.g. a first primary in May. If no clear majority, then a runoff between the leader and any other candidates within, say, 10% of the leader in June. Repeat until a clear majority winner, for each party.
Then this crap would go on for six months, max, without all the drama & who goes first, yadda yadda. Clear nominee at the convention, the convention is used for finalizing the platform, etc.