Hot or Not: The "46 States to Go" Signs

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In the next few days your guy and his supporters are going to try and end the primary process after only four states have voted and less than 5% of delegates have been assigned, just like they tried to do after Mitt won New Hampshire. The American primary system is screwed up for a number of reasons, but none more so than the fact that the media and the parties push relentlessly to end the democratic process as soon as possible, before the vast majority of the country gets their say.

[Lief 🗽]

The same thing. I think all fifty states should get the chance to vote, or at least every state should get the chance to vote until someone has won a majority of the delegates. The 2008 Democratic primary was a very good thing; it ended the dumb idea from 2000 and 2004 that things have to be done with as quickly as possible, and whoever wins the early states should be crowned the nominee immediately.

And the primary wouldn't be helping Obama if Romney and Gingrich weren't running relentlessly negative, scorched-earth campaigns against each other. Long, drawn-out primaries clearly can help candidates, as 2008 showed.