Why Do the People of Iowa Get to Choose My Next President?
Joe Biden said if a candidate does not finish in the top three in the Iowa caucus, they should drop out of the race. This sounds like crazy talk! If this were happening in another country, maybe one we didn’t trust or understand, we would say this was not an open election, and we would be right. Our candidates need to shake the hand of every Iowa resident by going to every diner, factory and Starbucks across the state just to get a chance to be on my ballot. This does not seem fair or logical.
The caucus system does not have secret ballots. The delegates go into a room and go into the corner of the candidate they are choosing. I would hope peer pressure is not helping decide our president, but it sure looks like it could!
A better system would be if there were votes in one randomly selected congressional district from each state, say February first of the election year. These fifty districts would have all the respective Republican and Democratic candidates on the ballot. This would give a nice cross section of American public opinion. The candidates would be forced to spread their message to the entire country, which would help them to hear our views as well. Now they can just ” adjust ” their message for every primary, so the Hilary Clinton you heard in January in Iowa might not be the one you hear in New York in June. Then the primaries could start after that, with the states rotating every four years who goes first and who goes ( irrelevantly ) last.
OK, that’s my nickel’s worth.
January 7th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
Like I said before (and numerous times), come on give I
January 7th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Like I said before (and numerous times), come on give us Iowans some love. It’s not our fault, really, ha. It’s the system and we like it actually.
January 7th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Hey, I loved the result, anything that keeps Hillary out of office is ok by me.