Picking the nominees
I pretty much agree with Jon Carroll's Who Am I Kidding column: I'll be voting for whomever the Democratic nominee is. Clinton, Obama, Edwards - all fine by me.
We here in Washington State don't get much choice in these matters. There is a primary but it doesn't count (for the Democrats anyway). Candidates are chosen in caucuses of party activists. We went to one when we first moved here in the late 1980s. You have to sit there for over an hour trying to convince other people that your candidate is right. Finally they take a vote and then some of the people at the caucus have to agree to go to some sort of regional meeting and cast their vote. I volunteered for that and went to the regional thing, and it turned out our candidate didn't for some reason qualify to get any support at all. In any case, it's all too late to matter anyway, as the candidates are decided early.
It would be nice to have some choice in the matter, but oh well.
Labels: politics
posted by Richard @ 1/18/2008
3 Comments:
the primary thing should be held within the same month for all states. Also, do caucus's have secret votes?
In the one we went to, the voting wasn't secret at all. The voters from each precinct had to argue and settle on one candidate to support. And if the support is split evenly, you've got a problem.
I admire your stance to back any Dem. At this point, sadly, I don't share it.
I feel Sen. Clinton's tactics in the primary campaign have been thoroughly Rovian and disgraceful, and -- even though I worked for her and her husband for four years -- I want no part of them anymore.
You don't wear the ring. You destroy the ring. If we Democrats will sanction ends-justify-the-means Rovian behavior on our side of the aisle, we have little left to stand on. In the inimitable words of Barry Goldwater, I'd rather be right than be president.
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