Web Letters: Rushed Primaries

This article appeared in the March 19, 2007 edition of The Nation.

March 1, 2007

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  • I applaud your taking this position. The front-loaded primary process funneled the Democratic Party into a hasty decision in 2004. Its nominee had time to raise more money as a result, but in the end the extra money didn't matter. So far, 2008 looks like even more of a circus.

    The greatest evil of our current system is the media's propensity to declare a winner when only a few mostly rural, mostly white people have had the chance to vote. Rotating regional primaries should give non-white, urban people a voice--while frustrating the mainstream media.

    Maybe then they'll continue to report on multiple candidates in the spring, although always below the celebrity scandal du jour.

    Mark Graham

    Cheverly, Maryland

    03/07/2007 @ 1:41pm


  • It does not matter a tinker's damn when or where there are primaries until the day comes when there are candidates that represent the needs of the common people.

    Matt Drayton

    San Francisco, CA

    03/06/2007 @ 10:29pm


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