There’s a thoughtful piece in today’s Salon by Michael Scherer about how truly corrupt and awful and downright undemocratic and frankly absurd our primary system is. I say thoughtful because it’s the sort of fact-based opinion piece that should send a shiver down the spine of us good burghers in first-in-the-universe primary land because we are one of the main culprits (but then there’s nothing about us getting ‘Why New Hampshire?’ sucker punch.)
Scherer has conducted a time-honored, quadrennial journalistic autopsy. Like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, this is latest version of peeking behind and finding, well, a large scale con game (or in this case, multiple cons) at the heart of our electoral dog and pony show. Thanks Michael for the heartburn. Thanks goodness the candidates keep playing along -- otherwise New Hampshir emight have to surrender a significant part of its idenity.
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