Super Tuesday? Maybe if my vote counted.

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So, there's a whole constellation of electoral fuckery to be bandied about today. Get comfy.

Both national parties are so full of shit that they squeak going into a turn - this whole circus of "caucuses" and "delegates" and the rest of it is simply a way to make sure that the public doesn't actually get the candidate it wants, it gets the candidate its party wants. The Democrats are marginally less assholish about this, going with a proportional distribution of delegates, as opposed to the Republicans' winner-take-all state races (if the Electoral College would follow the Dem's model, I'd have fewer complaints about it, but it should be dismantled and burned to heat the boiling oil Karl Rove and Ann Coulter need to be immersed in).

Of course, each national party has its own internal politics, carping on shit like "electability" at the expense of such trivial things as "competence." Don't even get me started on the legally-sanctioned mass disenfranchisement - the fact that the national parties got their high-handed knickers in a twist when states wanted to move their primaries up to when they might matter and saying "you don't count, don't campaign there." Thanks, assholes, way to give "of the people, by the people, for the people" a nice fucking kick in the eye.

As a Dem-leaning Independent, I want to vote *for* Obama; otherwise, I'm merely voting *against* someone who I think would be the worse alternative.

The math looks like this in my head:

Obama > any GOP candidate

Clinton =?= McCain =?= Ron Paul

In 2000, it would have been McCain > Clinton, but he's lost a lot of credibility due to his continual capitulation to the Bush administration's policies and talking points; "Straight Talk Express," my ass. I have disliked HC since her days as a NY Senator - I believe the phrase I used at the time was "carpetbagging bitch," because, as a NY state native, seeing her waltz in and assume to know what was best and how to represent us was presumptuous; I've still got enough of my "New York Is More Than Just The Fucking City" attitude to go around; also, her inability to own up to voting to authorize Bush's War in any kind of substantial way - sorry, lady, but "if I knew then what I know now" is a fucking cop-out, and we all knew it was bullshit during the run-up; you voted that way to protect your own ass, and now you get to live with it. Paul has no fucking shot, and would be my second choice if some of his social issue positions weren't diametrically opposed to my own.

Clinton > any GOP other candidate, because they're all fucking insane, social conservatives, or both


Yeah, it's an election year.

Comments

[angledge.livejournal.com]

Add this to your greater than/less than calculations.

[fenixinthedark.livejournal.com]

Personally, I think it is long since past time for the fucking electoral college to have been done away with (along with representatives voting themselves raises, voting for absentee reps, getting free health care *and* free child care, etc. etc. etc.). I also think it should be a felony crime to give "exit polls" until *after* the election is determined. It makes the people further west feel like their vote counts for precisely dick. If the exit polls don't *match* the election, *then* they should release the information as a story. But, that's just me making sense... what was I thinking?