Primary creates confusion

By Staff
Jerry Fancher
If the colleges offered a Presidential Primaries 101, who would be qualified to teach it?
After listening and reading all of the analysis of the Presidential Primaries, do you believe that you have better insight into these primaries than the pundits on TV, the talk radio hosts, and the newspaper writers? Do you believe that their comments are either based the latest polling data or their personal biases? Would you like to see someone report on the facts?
I believe that the media has failed to understand that the voters still vote on their convictions. The voters pick the candidate who has a message that comes from their heart, not the latest polling data. Some things that are getting little attention in the media:
1. The Michigan primaries on January 15 violate the early primary rules of both parties. The violations will cause Michigan to loose one half of the Republican delegates and all of the Democrat delegates to their respective conventions. Because no delegates are at stake in the Democrat primary, their candidates have boycotted the primary.
2. With no Democrat candidates to vote for, will the Michigan Democratic voters give John McCain the victory as they did in 2000?
3. Wyoming was won by Romney, but the primary violated the early primary rule of the Republican party, and he only received one half of the states delegates.
4. Florida, like Michigan, violated party rules and all the major Democratic candidates agreed to boycott their primary.
5. Why has the national and state leadership of the respective parties not been held accountable for the disfranchisement of the voters of these states?
When you think about the complexity of our presidential primary system, how could one freshman level course give the students an understanding of this complicated system? On second thought, I believe this is a PHD level course.
Jerry Fancher is Chairman of the Franklin County Republican Executive Committee. He can be reached via email at fancherjd@yahoo.com