Reply #43: Uh, with my PoliSci degree, I assure you [View All]

the primary system may not be perfect, but it is better than selecting a candidate based upon polls.

It seems a lot of Clark supporters wish to have the nominee selected by looking at a few polls to see who does better in a match up against Bush. That would be folly, for sure.

You say the primaries have nothing to do with the General Election. I strongly disagree and history disagrees with you as well. Primaries are about exciting the base, the pavement stompers and letter writers. Of course Gore won all the Southern primary states, he had no real competition. He still won the popular vote. At the end of the day, until the system is changed, this is the way we select the nominee. If you want to change the process, I encourage you to lobby the DNC and stop asking people to vote for a candidate based on polls that are trying to estimate what is going to happen nearly 10 months in the future. A lot can and will change in 10 months.