Showing posts with label iowa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label iowa. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Current Primary System Should Be Abolished in Favor of One National Primary Day: System is Over-Generous to Four States at the Expense of 46 Others

I'm in favor of abolishing the current primary system and establishing a single national primary day, where all states vote on the same day. No special consideration will be given to Iowa, South Carolina, New Hampshire, or Nevada.

The current system is unfair to the other 46 states that have issues of their own and will vote their own way regardless of what happens in the four favored states. Get rid of this system!

And the parties (the Democrats) ought to quit punishing Michigan and Florida for challenging the status quo. Shame on them for disenfranchising voters after CRYING about having all those disenfranchised voters in Florida in 2000, who they've turned on, by the way.

Hypocrites!

Sunday, August 12, 2007

GOP Field Finally Starts to Narrow: Gov. Thompson Pulls Out of Race

Former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson dropped out of the GOP race for his party's presidential nomination today, after placing sixth in the Iowa straw polls.

He's the smartest one out of all of them. I like Tommy Thompson, but he wasn't the right man in the right place at the right time. This time. He may be a Vice-Presidential candidate down the road.

There are still too many candidates. More GOP candidates should follow Thompson's example and help to clear the board. Those who weren't sure of where they stand with potential voters know now.

Results:

1) Gov. Mitt Romney 31%.
2) Gov. Mike Huckabee 18.1%
3) Sen. Sam Brownback 15.3%
4) Tom Tancredo 13.7%
5) Ron Paul 9.1%
6) Tommy Thompson 7.3%
7) Fred Thomson 1.4%
8) Rudy Giuliani 1.2%
9) Duncan Hunter 1.2%
10) John McCain <1%
11) John Cox <1%

Should be interesting to see if any of the others throw in the towel too.