So Florida has a primary in January.
Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina then soon follow. ALL vying for the right to declare that they are THE state that has chosen the next President.
I say they are jumping the gun. Buying the first distribution of IPad. We know now that the newer IPads are much better. Faster, cheaper, more capable. The difference here is that once the primary is over, you cannot chose again. After voting in January, what can you do when C. Christie or S. Palin or ‘your favorite Conservative goes here’ jumps into the race. What do you do. You chose the best of the worst. You are done. Completed the task. An now must live with the fact that you have chosen a lesser candidate than your “best choice”. In effect, you let me actually perform the selection.
This is rediculous. I have to believe that it is being pushed heavily by the Liberals to narrow the choices and give them more time to dig up dirt. This is a ploy against our better judgement. Not an aide for it. This is a plan to get a quick result for a difficult decision.
Watch the polls from day to day, from week to week, and from month to month. Does anyone here really believe that we, the Conservative or the true Republicans, has actually narrowed our search! We are vetting candidates day to day. We are finding their weaknesses and strengths. We need more time.
OK, put it this way, if you had 14 months to live, would you really chose to go in 3?
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As a Floridian, I am disappointed
GregInFla (Diary) Friday, September 30th at 12:33PM EST (link)Florida loses half its delegates doing this. In what could be a convention-decided race, that is not good.
– A true evolutionist would let endangered species die off. Think about it.
– The sign outside the courthouse said no signs allowed. So I took it down.
– Atlas Shrugged is now on the non-fiction aisle at Amazon.
The first 4
Scope (Diary) Friday, September 30th at 12:40PM EST (link)Iowa, NH, SC, and Nev. will all move up to remain ahead of Fla. I had actually read that Iowa was willing to move their caucus into Dec. if they had to to stay first.
There is a lot of anger about this move, and no question the Fla. delegates will be cut in half. Huh, all those Cain straw poll supporters will have had their last say last week.
Just curious, why does it matter who goes first in a primary (other than
Xasteius (Diary) Friday, September 30th at 1:28PM EST (link)political strategy. Furthermore, why do Iowa, New Hampshire, etc. feel like they need to go first (and why do we care)? If you really wanted to see how the country felt about a candidate, the first primary state should be Missouri, which represents the national cultural cross-section (I might be biased since I’ve lived there, but…). Otherwise, it seems to me that the primary schedule is a cheap way for states to fundraise and somehow self-inflate their ‘importance’.
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I don’t want to be Reagan. I want to be a Chance/Soros hybrid.