{"id":555,"date":"2007-10-25T13:13:58","date_gmt":"2007-10-25T19:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=555"},"modified":"2007-10-25T13:13:58","modified_gmt":"2007-10-25T19:13:58","slug":"primary-pissing-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=555","title":{"rendered":"Primary Pissing Match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the most part, I&#8217;ve been ignorning the sleep-inducing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1007\/6521.html\">&#8220;controversy&#8221;<\/a> about when the primaries are scheduled. It crosses me as so totally pointless.<\/p>\n<p>However, I do agree that the influence of a few key states over who becomes the Presidential nominee is worrisome. For example, Iowa&#8217;s early entry is part of the reason farm subsidies are so massive.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s my simple solution, which I expect the politicians to stagger to eventually over the next 25 years while they sideswipe bad ideas like having the first 2012 primary shortly after the 2008 election<\/p>\n<p>Picks some dates and then, each season, randomly assign states to each primary slot. That way, you retain the drawn-out primary that forces candidates to develop momentum but don&#8217;t give any one state too much power.<\/p>\n<p>Well, either that or have the conventions serve a God-damned purpose and choose the candidate there&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the most part, I&#8217;ve been ignorning the sleep-inducing &#8220;controversy&#8221; about when the primaries are scheduled. It crosses me as so totally pointless. However, I do agree that the influence of a few key states over who becomes the Presidential nominee is worrisome. For example, Iowa&#8217;s early entry is part of the reason farm subsidies &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=555\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Primary Pissing Match<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-8X","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}