Posted on 07/29/2011 7:55:11 PM PDT by newzjunkey
California’s next presidential primary will be one of the last in the nation thanks to a measure signed Friday by Gov. Jerry Brown ...
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Thank you all, legislators, for disenfranchising CA voters when it comes to choosing who may become presidential.
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The good news here is that when Hugo Chavez wins the CA primary, it will be too late for him to get the nomination.
We're nothing but an "ATM" for the two parties.
California liberals are to the left of Marx/Stalin.
Umm why not move the state primaries to February?
giggle!!!! :-))))
Here in the NW I can't think of any primary where my vote counted. It sucks.
Viva La Mexico!
The less influence Californians have on the political process the better things are for the country.
Voting in California is an exercise in futility. I have zero representatives in this state. No senators, no congressman, no state senator, no assemblyman. There’s just no point even bothering to go to the polling place, Oh, wait, I forgot—I don’t even have a polling place where I live. I don’t exist, as far as the government is concerned—except when it’s time to pay taxes.
California and Moonbeam are one big joke. Mea culpa mea culpa America.
Hmmm.... all of the media reps at the TV and radio stations are going to take a HIT. Gonna be hard to sell advertising for a dead dog race...... Game over before June.
The primaries are all too early. I wish every state would push them to June.
FWIW we will either be irrelevant or we will get to be the state that decides who the candidate will be.
If we had pushed the last primary out till June, it might have kept McCain from getting the nomination and we could have sent the nomination to be decided on the convention floor. When the nomination is decided at the convention, the delegates tend to push for the more conservative candidates when they are released. IIRC that is what happened in 1964.
The primary process is not envisioned at all in the Constitution, it doesn’t work and gives us a lousy candidate as often as it doesn’t, and it gives inordinate opportunity to the media to manipulate the outcome.
I prefer the idea of each congressional district electing an elector and sending that elector to Washington and having those electors elect one of their number or going to an outstanding citizen (George Washington) and electing him to the presidency.
We wouldn’t even need national campaigns.
What a gift to the nation. Elections in California are forgone LaRaza conclusions anyway.
California should be renamed Unionton.
Self-interest. The presidential primary was at first Tues in Feb. These people don't want to be irritating voters with statewide election stuff during Christmas and that's when it would have to happen because in CA you have a full month of early voting so ballots would be first cast around January 3rd, 2012.
No state or local politician wants to in your face with ads until after the holidays.
Umm why not move the state primaries to February?
Naaahhh.... That’s just too logical to happen.
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