NYT editorial: Stop IA and NH primaries because they’re too white
Ever the champion of democracy, the Old Gray Hag says that the IA caucus and NH primary shouldn’t be allowed to exist, since they’re way too caucasian. Observe:
… Watching the campaign in cold, snowy and mostly empty Iowa, we were hoping for something else — that this year’s Iowa-New Hampshire rush to judgment will be the last.
…
Keeping this race alive so significant numbers of Americans in more populated states can participate would begin to make up for the ludicrous spectacle of the past year, which enriched the television networks and the political consultants (some $300 million already spent) far more than it enriched the political dialogue. We hope both parties will wake up and end the undemocratic system in which the choice of a new president rests far too heavily on nonbinding votes in January by voters that don’t necessarily represent the rest of the country.
We don’t question the enthusiasm or the commitment of the people of Iowa and New Hampshire. But Iowa, where a huge turnout amounts to less than 10 percent of the population, is about 92 percent white, more rural and older than the rest of the nation. New Hampshire has a non-Hispanic white population of about 95 percent. …
Quips Michelle Malkin:
Yes, white, rural, elderly voters turned out in droves for black candidate Obama and rejected white, union-backed hacks Hillary Clinton and John Edwards.
This must be stopped!
Diversity at the expense of democracy? Friggin’ brilliant. As if the Hag weren’t done with her moonbattery, she threw in a little ignorance of how our system of government works:
…None of this has led us to a choice in the nominating contests, never mind for the presidency. The majority of Americans are in the same position. That’s why they should be allowed to see and hear more of these candidates, and not have to settle for the judgments of the people of Iowa and New Hampshire.
I think they meant that no one should have to settle for Whitey’s judgment, right?
I don’t know how to break it to the geniuses (genii?) of the NYT, but no one is forced to settle with IA and NH’s choice! See, all states in the union get to have primaries, thus avoiding having to “settle” with early states’ picks. In 2000, McCain won NH by about 19%, yet lost the very next state (SC) by 11%. He won some, and he lost some. That’s kinda how that whole complicated “voting” thingy works, fishwrap.
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I love the smell of racist, intolerance in the NYT’s morning editorial.
Smells like… “Progressives”!
Comment by Henry | January 4, 2008