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Originally Posted by Strange Famous
Yes... but what I was asking was not exactly that.
I wasnt saying dont give people the choice.
I was saying give people one choice, not the double selection process.
By all means, people should elect however they feel guided too... but I feel it should be one decision, and they should understand it as such... a choice made in two stages seems less likely to be well made.
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I have a couple of issues with your claim.
First, Hillary *is* the choice of the party leadership - check out the "Super Delegates":
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/05/6189/
The whole point of the super delegate system is to try to make sure that the plebians don't stray too far from the party line. Now, these delegates can change their vote, and they'll probably go with whoever wins the popular vote, but they could, possibly, sway almost any race. And right now, they choose Hillary. If they were the ones who got to pick, it would be Hillary.
Second, for most of us Plebes, we *don't* get to pick from more than two candidates. Unless we happen to live in an early primary state, the race will be won by the time it gets around to us. The only race that will matter is the actual election, and we'll get to choose between....Dem or Repub.
Third, I think part of the whole point of the primary system is to see how the candidates actually *do* in a campaign. A trial run, if you will. If the candidate fairs poorly in the primary, it's a pretty good indication that they would not have done well in the rest of the race. The primary system lets the party know that a given candidate doesn't play well with certain segments of the population, or can't take the strain of a campaign.
While I do think Hillary has electability problems, but I think the bigger problem is the *hate* that the right-wingers have for her. I'm not kidding. They'd of course rather have one of their own as president, but the idea of Hillary in office makes them froth at the mouth. Go read some right wing blogs, it's scary. Hillary as a candidate will probably help them whip the masses into a frenzy to go out and vote *against* her.
She does also have some likability issues, but she seems to have hit a magic formula with The Crying Incident. We'll see how that works out for her.