If ANYTHING conclusively proved the flaw of front-loaded primaries...

[FlyingSquirrel]

Today certainly did.

The doomsayer columnists have been proven correct.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/08/AR2007020801868.html
http://www.kiplinger.com/businessresource/forecast/archive/2008_presidential_race_070827.html
http://www.boston.com/news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2007/01/23/compressed_2008_primary_calendar_changes_dynamics/
http://www.fixtheprimaries.com/thenation/

A few states have been allowed to narrow the choices down to two, and almost certainly the race will be declared over by the end of February. The vast majority of Americans never got the chance to vote for Biden, Edwards, Dodd, Richardson or Kucinich. Or Gravel.

Granted, there's always a weaning process and a lot of people have always been denied the choice to vote for their candidate. But never before has it been taken to this extreme.

Will this be the end? Will it get even worse next time? The logical conclusion, if you take what's been happening to its extreme, is a corporate-backed candidate having the only chance.

In fact, if there's only one corporate-backed candidate, the logical conclusion is the race being over before a single vote is cast.

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(Edited to add Gravel. Sorry, Gravel supporter!)

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[dbackjon]

1. Agreed - I am pissed that I never got a chance to choose

Aren't we supposed to be pro-choice??

[joe_sixpack]

2. Amen

I've wondered the same. My primary is coming up and I feel almost left out of the process.

[patrice]

3. Hail! The Machine in all of its glory! nt