The media has certainly made money off of the primary season and the Donald Trump viewer draw. At any time they could have run polls pitting da Don against a hypothetical remaining Republican candidate and easily seen how votes would pile up for the non-Trump but ending the Trump media circus(ad dollars) would be unprofitable for the news networks. They run these hypothetical polls all the time but you didn't see one like this that would take the air out of the Trump media draw did you? It's ad dollars and it's at your expense but that is the least of it.
The election primaries are a farce because of the ridiculous emphasis put on a vote in Iowa or New Hampshire. That any candidate would be pressured to drop out because of such a situation is beyond common sense. The caucus in Iowa is difficult for a purpose. It is supposed to winnow out the candidates not favored by the base or the parties establishment and it likely screens out anyone trying to bring radical change and ignite a normally indifferent electorate that wouldn't participate in caucuses anyway. You see realistically it is only the party's base voters, the committed over time politically active, the people that go to political meetings throughout the year, etc. that attend caucuses. In these caucuses you do not just go in and vote in a booth and leave like a regular person with a busy life and little time to spare, you have to hang around for hours so this is not an election where the real majority or mass of people are going to pick a candidate. The result coming out of Iowa should in no way be considered the choice of the majority of voters or have any real sway. That a candidate or any candidate should be expelled from our national election because of this situation is an a front to all that is honorable but the media bend over backwards making like the Iowa caucuses are the "Superbowl" of the election. You see it now embarrassingly before your very eyes.
No candidate should drop out because of Iowa or New Hampshire and it is a shame and a farce that any backers of candidates would fall for this and pull their support. The media however is the driver of this. They create and perpetuate the perception of the importance of minor important Iowa. The major media have consistently shown they do the bidding of the corporate state(establishment) which wants uncontroversial "stabilizing" candidates. Herein is the essence of the fear of real democracy and real freedom. The corporate state doesn't lean upon the constitution, they lean upon what they want and expect(stabilization for financial markets and war profiting at your expense) and they are by now after so many years of the people allowing them to get away with it spoiled for it. With this winnowing control in the election the corporate state gets what they expect. And is Iowa or New Hampshire representative of the broad electorate? No way. Not on issues nor by race. Both states are very predominately white. Huh? Is it 2015? Are we really so stupid to allow the corporate state(establishment) to start out an election by effectively alienating a large segment of voters and a growing segment and is that by any means smart in 2015? I could rest my case here but let's go on.
Super Tuesday might be a better time for a candidate to consider where they stand but no candidate should drop out until they know where they stand with a reasonable portion of such states as Florida, Ohio, New York, California, Texas or a fair amount of mid-states. It is blatantly absurd that the people of these states should have to wait around and take whatever Iowa gives them, I mean are we even living in the same universe. Is there anything even remotely fair, logical or reasonable that maintains this.
In our democracy you should want a candidate to emerge that is the choice of a fair amount of the people at the very least. Let Iowa and New Hampshire go first if they must but also let them mean little. A Super Tuesday vote should be the first significant decider of anything. We should have at the very least two of the states mentioned above in that first Super Tuesday vote let's say Texas as it is and Florida or New York not just a bunch of western and southern states that skew the election to look like a call for a particular kind of candidate and political demographics are not hard to discern. Piddling around with South Carolina or Nevada in between is just distraction and another opportunity to magnify the skewed result coming out of Iowa.
What is fair and just here is also not hard to discern. Every national election primary starts out in this yin-yang convoluted way. People certainly get the feeling that something is just not right with the system and they feel certain candidates are being screened out from exposure to the broader electorate. You think?
The absurd emphasis on Iowa caucuses and early primaries of smaller populated states is a farce and an a front to common sense. If one were a candidate and could afford to they should treat Iowa and New Hampshire just like they should be treated relative to their population and spend 90% of their time in a correctly balanced Super Tuesday slate of states. The emphasis and media circus surrounding Iowa is a complete farce and should be protested as an embarrassment for this nation. Let us hope a conquering alien armada would stumble upon us now because they surely would deduce that as dumb-headed as our election is we are not even worth a stopover.
The election primaries are a farce because of the ridiculous emphasis put on a vote in Iowa or New Hampshire. That any candidate would be pressured to drop out because of such a situation is beyond common sense. The caucus in Iowa is difficult for a purpose. It is supposed to winnow out the candidates not favored by the base or the parties establishment and it likely screens out anyone trying to bring radical change and ignite a normally indifferent electorate that wouldn't participate in caucuses anyway. You see realistically it is only the party's base voters, the committed over time politically active, the people that go to political meetings throughout the year, etc. that attend caucuses. In these caucuses you do not just go in and vote in a booth and leave like a regular person with a busy life and little time to spare, you have to hang around for hours so this is not an election where the real majority or mass of people are going to pick a candidate. The result coming out of Iowa should in no way be considered the choice of the majority of voters or have any real sway. That a candidate or any candidate should be expelled from our national election because of this situation is an a front to all that is honorable but the media bend over backwards making like the Iowa caucuses are the "Superbowl" of the election. You see it now embarrassingly before your very eyes.
No candidate should drop out because of Iowa or New Hampshire and it is a shame and a farce that any backers of candidates would fall for this and pull their support. The media however is the driver of this. They create and perpetuate the perception of the importance of minor important Iowa. The major media have consistently shown they do the bidding of the corporate state(establishment) which wants uncontroversial "stabilizing" candidates. Herein is the essence of the fear of real democracy and real freedom. The corporate state doesn't lean upon the constitution, they lean upon what they want and expect(stabilization for financial markets and war profiting at your expense) and they are by now after so many years of the people allowing them to get away with it spoiled for it. With this winnowing control in the election the corporate state gets what they expect. And is Iowa or New Hampshire representative of the broad electorate? No way. Not on issues nor by race. Both states are very predominately white. Huh? Is it 2015? Are we really so stupid to allow the corporate state(establishment) to start out an election by effectively alienating a large segment of voters and a growing segment and is that by any means smart in 2015? I could rest my case here but let's go on.
Super Tuesday might be a better time for a candidate to consider where they stand but no candidate should drop out until they know where they stand with a reasonable portion of such states as Florida, Ohio, New York, California, Texas or a fair amount of mid-states. It is blatantly absurd that the people of these states should have to wait around and take whatever Iowa gives them, I mean are we even living in the same universe. Is there anything even remotely fair, logical or reasonable that maintains this.
In our democracy you should want a candidate to emerge that is the choice of a fair amount of the people at the very least. Let Iowa and New Hampshire go first if they must but also let them mean little. A Super Tuesday vote should be the first significant decider of anything. We should have at the very least two of the states mentioned above in that first Super Tuesday vote let's say Texas as it is and Florida or New York not just a bunch of western and southern states that skew the election to look like a call for a particular kind of candidate and political demographics are not hard to discern. Piddling around with South Carolina or Nevada in between is just distraction and another opportunity to magnify the skewed result coming out of Iowa.
What is fair and just here is also not hard to discern. Every national election primary starts out in this yin-yang convoluted way. People certainly get the feeling that something is just not right with the system and they feel certain candidates are being screened out from exposure to the broader electorate. You think?
The absurd emphasis on Iowa caucuses and early primaries of smaller populated states is a farce and an a front to common sense. If one were a candidate and could afford to they should treat Iowa and New Hampshire just like they should be treated relative to their population and spend 90% of their time in a correctly balanced Super Tuesday slate of states. The emphasis and media circus surrounding Iowa is a complete farce and should be protested as an embarrassment for this nation. Let us hope a conquering alien armada would stumble upon us now because they surely would deduce that as dumb-headed as our election is we are not even worth a stopover.
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