The presidential primary scam
Posted on October 8th, 2007 by bile Categories and Tags: Uncategorized, censorship, debate, Diebold, Donald Duck, donation, electoral college, freedom, liberty, politics, States, voting, your moneyIt’s far worse than you think — worse than hanging chads, faulty Diebold machines, and billionaires who bankroll last-minute attack ads. The American system for nominating a presidential candidate has about as much in common with actual democracy as Donald Duck has with a lake mallard. It’s not just that this year’s primaries have been further front-loaded, or that the early primary states aren’t representative of the nation at large. There is only passing fairness. There is only the semblance of order. There is nothing like equal representation under the law.
The Electoral College is confusing enough… then the states and the parties make it so much worse. I think the time when the possibility of doing a popular vote was impractical and potentially risky (read the notes from the Constitutional Convention) has passed. I think I’d rather see a instant-runoff system or similar.
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October 8th, 2007 at 3:49 pm
Do you advocate reforms in the spirit of The Connecticut Compromise? Everyone would agree that the current system is a convoluted mess, but it all began with this problem.
October 8th, 2007 at 4:10 pm
That’s only part of the problem. That compromise was actually done before the election and powers of the president were finalized. In early Sept. (4th-6th), 1787 was when it came into being as we know after a subcommittee had been sent off prior to work on it. I can only quote the book I have but a quick review here seems to have the notes in a different format. Doesn’t appear to have the metadata the book has though. I highly recommend reading that book or similar.