Comments on: Not Quite As Clueless

By: 27 Stories to Read at Florida Progressive Coalition Blog

27 Stories to Read at Florida Progressive Coalition Blog — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 05:31:35 +0000

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By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:26:38 +0000

Voting rights is a concern for the general election, the primary election is controlled by the parties, and the parties in Florida have gone off the rails. The entire nomination process is a disaster and the parties should fix it or fold their tents.

By: whig

whig — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 08:58:11 +0000

hipparchia, I’m with you. Prisoners must have the right to vote, lest people be imprisoned in order to deprive them of that right. This has a lot of ramifications, of course. In a decent society there should not be a substantial prisoner class.

By: whig

whig — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 08:49:02 +0000

I think if Florida wants to hold a straw poll, instead of a primary, there are some serious questions about deprivation of voting rights. They should push their date back to where it belongs.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 05:53:50 +0000

Open primaries on the same day and the top two are on the November ballot.

i could live with that. i want purple fingers instead of voter id [although something for proof of age might be needed] and prisoners get to vote, even while they’re in prison.

with everybody rushing to be first in line, and voting so early in the process, thereby making themselves irrelevant, it might leave an opening for the straggling states to have a bigger impact.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 04:30:17 +0000

They go from disaster to disaster. everyone wants to be first, and no one wants to wait their turn. Iowa and New Hampshire represent almost nothing about the country except small media markets.

Open primaries on the same day and the top two are on the November ballot.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 03:50:43 +0000

hey! ohio got ahead of us last time. we couldn’t have that happening again.

the primary system was already broken, the candidates started campaigning way to early, and all the ones who are members of congress should have stayed in dc and voted to defund the war, rather than gallivant around the country sniping at each other. i’m holding out some small hope that this debacle will somehow bring about some kind of change in the system. someday.