Edited on Fri Nov-21-03 11:57 AM by Vote_Clark_In_WI
since I don't have a clue how they handle it then.
But I sure wish that Soros would pick up on this and put some of his millions into funding the primaries in the states that claim they can't afford to run them. (is that even legal for him to do that?) It would sure be a good start on spending the money that he has committed to ousting bush.
I think it's totally WRONG that states can cancel primaries, and until this year didn't even know that they COULD. I think that it should be a condition of statehood, even if it has to be funded by the Fed. government. For pete's sake - the votes of the people of Colorado should count just as much as those in New Hampshire! Maybe it should be that it's federally funded, with all primaries on the same day. THAT would certainly shake things up a bit.
on edit: and now that I think more about it - does that mean that the Dems won't be paying attention to those states at all during the campaign time prior to the convention? Some swing voters need to see candidates a few times and feel like they have a sense of who the candidates are before they consider voting for them - they'd get to the general election and the only name that would sound familiar to them is the chimp's. This is really starting to tick me off.
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