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Hillary didn’t win; she just didn’t lose …

By on Mar 6, 2008 in Politics

Last night, CNN was covered with talk of ‘Hilary Won!’ and peppered with ‘Why did Hilary win?’ and ‘Why did Obama lose?’ Here’s the thing: Hilary did not “win” any votes yesterday. In fact, she lost many. Prior to election day, Obama was polling at around 20% in Texas and Ohio. (Now we could go into a diatribe about how polling is bullshit but I’ll hold off). Which means that, since Obama got around 45% of the vote , he won 25% of Hilary’s voters or, put in another way, Hilary lost 25% of her voters. Now I’m no Obama lover, but my hatred for simplistic media coverage trumps all political affiliations. One guest on CNN finally got it right around midnight: The media (and perhaps the country) is treating this election like a general election, in other words, we are treating it like it is ‘winner take...

The primary system is failing us!!

By on Jan 30, 2008 in Politics

I just found out that Edwards is dropping out of the presidential race. This right after Kucinich – by far the best progressive candidate and the only politician i know with the balls to risk his career to do what’s right – dropped out due to a fierce re-election campaign. I’m heartbroken and I blame the primary system. Here’s why: Having primaries on different days in different states gives more weight to those states that come first. Super Tuesday hasn’t happen yet. Four states – count them four – have voted. (Well technically 6 states have voted but since the democratic party has used its corrupted weight to disenfranchise Michigan and Floridian democrats and not count their votes, I won’t either). Only 8% of the country has weighed in on primary candidates and already 4 candidates (Kucinich, Edwards, Dodd, andBiden) have dropped...