In the never-ending quest to perfect their system of nominating candidates for POTUS who can in turn lose the general election, the Ds have decided to alter their calendar of caucuses and primaries for 2008. Specifically, Nevada and South Carolina will join Iowa and New Hampshire in the dark days of midwinter.
Ostensibly this move is to bring more ethnic diversity to the nominating process, specifically Hispanic-Americans from Nevada and African-Americans in South Carolina.
We will not comment on the (racist?) assumption that people identified with an ethnic group in a less urbanized state like South Carolina have the same political interests as those in a more urbanized state like Michigan, or that the distinct economic issues of Nevada will play out politically with a particular ethnic group in the same way they do with that ethnic group in Texas or Florida. As always, we wish the Ds well with their good intentions grounded in the politics of special interest.
But we suspect another set of intentions, as the effect of this move is patent. To wit, moving the selection of yet more delegates to a point nearly eleven months before the general election puts a huge premium on early fundraising and name-recognition.
So call this the first victory in Hillary's '08 campaign, the result of which will give her, like the early-nominated John Kerry before her, sufficient time to wear down the electorate with her inherent insufferability before November.
3 comments:
Moving out here has nothing to do with gaining ANY African-American votes. I can't even count on two hands the number of African Americans I've seen out here that weren't visiting town.
And as far as economic issues are concerned, distance is a good word. But the whole thing with the economics of this place have to either do with trying to retain the Union Vote (as anything with the tag "Union" is blindly worshipped out here), or because the only places in this state that are populated are booming still.
My guess is that some of it has to do with the fact that there is no strong candidate. There have been some very small whispers and grumblings here about Harry Reid. There's a possibility that they could be trying to hedge their bets in the primaries.
But honestly it doesn't make sense to me. Not exactly a really smart move.
I would like to note on a different topic that on 5/18 SWNID wasbemoaning the performance of our beloved Reds calling them "in the toilet" and their early success "too good to be true." Perhaps it is time for SWNID to recant of his undue pessimism. Here's to the Reds (motto: "Putting the 'W' in SWNID since 5/18/06)!
After tonight's 14-0 humiliation of the despised Astros, I happily affirm my wrongness on 18 May. Of course, Krivsky has brilliantly replaced the better part of the team since then, but they who vie courageously for a playoff berth still wear the uniform of my beloved Cincinnati Reds.
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