Is There a Primary Flaw?

In just a few short months, Obama has managed to do the seemingly impossible: he’s come from an unfavorable position behind two bigger-name Democratic candidates to pull up neck-and-neck with Clinton. It really is about these two now, and it looks like the race is about to get very heated.
In the midst of all of this election excitement, the DNC is already thinking of revising their nomination processes. The question of whether caucuses and super delegates are outdated and actually harmful to the Democratic party and the American public has been posed by every journalist, blogger, and office philosopher in the country lately.
The tight race between New York Sen. Hillary Clinton and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama means the nomination could be determined by superdelegates or the outcome of a fight over the two states’ right to cast delegate votes. That’s proving a double embarrassment for the party, pushing some of its leaders to call for an appraisal of party rules that have been in effect for decades.
Pardon us for asking, but…wouldn’t a good time to change things have been about two years ago? You know, before we were in the middle of another primary season?
Posted: February 15th, 2008 under 2008 Elections, American Politics, Democrats, Political Opinion.
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