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Why should Kentucky bother voting in the primary? |
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Written by -Chuck
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Tuesday, 06 May 2008 |
Primaries
I utterly detest the coverage of the Democratic primaries. Kentucky is a state that isn't delegate-rich-enough to be worthy of the attention of the MSM, and we should be used to it. How many times have you watched the Weather Channel and had to rely on the stats from Cincinnati because cities from Kentucky were excluded? Lexington, Louisville...anything?
Not in this case. My wife looked at me earlier tonight (the night of the Indiana primary) and stated that she wasn't going to bother voting in May. "What's the point?" she says? All day long we've heard nothing other than "how the race is over after today" and how "other states aren't going to matter as much as the super-delegates". I had a tough time coming up with a counter for that, and that's really sad.
We have a split Democratic party, and yes, some are threatening to vote McCain if their candidate of choice doesn't win the nomination. The only problem here is that exactly half of the Democratic electorate will be disappointed. Are we so petty as a party to hand the nation over for a 3rd Bush term under McCain rather than unify and change the world? Seriously!
Points like these are why I don't count myself among the "proud Democrats". The Republicans actually have a far more democratic nominating process than the party of the same name, and why doesn't this surprise me? The Republicans used to be the small government, civil-liberties, party...right? Well, something of that remains in their charter.
The Democrats and their nominating process sheds a lot of light on why we haven't had good representation in Washington.
So, why should Kentucky come out and vote in May?
Here's a good reason: McCain/McConnell 08.
That's why.
Think about it.
-Chuck
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