I haven't updated in forever, and I said I would. Today I'm going to talk about the 2008 presidential election, which will probably be a big focus of mine for the next eight months.
There are a few topics to look for in the coming updates. All of the presidential candidates have a lot to be said for and against them. I also want to take a look at a few things that are going on in Iraq. But for today, we are going to be talking about Florida and Michigan.
I'm sure that everyone who doesn't live under a rock knows the basic premise by now. Florida and Michigan's votes will not count in the democratic primary because they happened too early for the Democratic National Convention. Apparently the cost of a re-vote is about $25 million, and the DNC doesn't want to pay for it. Well, if Florida broke the rules and voted early who paid for the first one? I don't know the answer, but if the DNC paid for a vote that didn't count they are idiots and shouldn't have paid for it. If the states paid for the vote, shouldn't the DNC have money allotted for those states to have Primaries anyways?
While I will work on getting those questions answered, I think that this is not the focus we need to put on this event. When Florida and Michigan said they were going to break the rules, the Democratic front runners refused to campaign in those states. Now, if a candidate refuses to go to your state it shows you just how much they really care about you. I thought it was the United States, not the United States that will get me in power. Instead they went to other states who's delegates actually counted for them to win the process.
To make matters worse, now that it comes down to the wire and Obama and Clinton are closer than either thought they would be, both candidates are pleading for Florida and Michigan to be heard. In itself that is enough reason to prove that both of these candidates are unfit to lead this country. That kind of two-faced pretending to care is the exact thing that we need to get out of our government. Don't pretend to care, actually care.
How do we stop this problem from ever happening again? Make these primaries all happen on one single day. We do it for President, so you can't tell me it isn't logistically possible. If they happened on the same day across the country, then no one would be first and no one would be left out. The candidates would have to do a major rework of their time, and it would stop the campaign process from dragging on for months.
Our entire electoral process needs major reformation, which is the topic of a post in itself but not one that I will go in to today.
