{"id":327,"date":"2008-01-04T09:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/happy-2008"},"modified":"2008-01-04T09:41:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-04T16:41:00","slug":"happy-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/happy-2008","title":{"rendered":"Happy 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are now “officially” into the primary voting<\/span> season. <\/p>\n

Yes – we will still get non stop coverage of all primary candidates but those numbers will decrease over time. <\/p>\n

Now that Iowa caucusing is over and done – well except for the spinmeisters and cable noise incessantly analyzing the fallout – we look ahead to New Hampshire and on?<\/p>\n

Living in a late primary state – we vote in May – it is a bit discouraging to feel that some parts of the country will have little impact on the presidential primaries…unless it’ s still pretty much a tie and then we late states will be seen as prime targets for all the media go-round.<\/p>\n

After this election, we need a sane discussion on how to do presidential primaries. Not this craziness we are having with several states moving theirs up into January to be on record as first or second – because they are the ones who want to have the biggest impact. <\/p>\n

Not that I have anything against Iowa or New Hampshire – but why these two states are the ones to give the press a reason to dub the “winners” and “losers” I don’t know. I’d rather the voting population take back that choice. Why should the media be the ones who get to say who is “viable” – as that is based solely on money raised – not votes. And of course those with the most money get the most media attention and so the cycle of media control over our elections continues.<\/p>\n

I recall when the League of Women votes ran the debates. Think of it! A non-partisan entity asking real questions of ALL candidates. How have we reached a position where the media outlet running a debate even gets to tell candidates they can’t come because they are not viable and then does not ask questions of those candidates who ARE there? <\/p>\n

The whole debate scenario needs a fix along with fixing the primary mess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are now “officially” into the primary voting season. Yes – we will still get non stop coverage of all primary candidates but those numbers will decrease over time. Now that Iowa caucusing is over and done – well except for the spinmeisters and cable noise incessantly analyzing the fallout – we look ahead to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[359,567,565,566,568],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-iowa","tag-league-fo-women-voters","tag-new-hampshire","tag-presidential-primaries","tag-primary-debates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}