The Political Fiend

Reader Poll: McCain’s Missteps

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1. Palin for the win. Regularly ultraconservative members of my family have come to me asking to tell them about Obama after having been frightened by Palin in the VP debate. Isn’t that exciting? Hopefully people really are starting to wake up. McCain’s stance on abortion has scared some traditionally Republican acquaintances of mine as well. His problem is that he overcompensated for his lack of support in the crazy evangelical neo-con minority and managed to alienate moderates.

   

   Jamie

   October 17, 2008 at 1:19 pm

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2. What does the poll matter for??? Let’s face facts here. Neither candidate is good for the country. They were picked by delegates, so we get to choose from the 2 that were selected for us, and this year, both conventions at a local, state and national level intentionaly were penalized so that the choice was made by even fewer delegates (superdelegates).

   This who countries political system is a scam and “We The People” are out in the cold in our own country!

   Sadly, my country does not exist anymore!

   

   sgtphoenix

   October 17, 2008 at 1:22 pm

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3. sgtphoenix, you might be a bit unclear on how the delegate system works. In the primary elections, each state is assigned a number of delegates based on the state’s population. Regular voters then go to the polls and choose their candidate. Depending on the system being used, the top vote getter takes all the state’s delegates, or gets a proportion of them. Thereafter, the first candidate to amass the required number of delegates gets the nomination. So the voters choose who gets the delegates, and the delegates in turn are informally bound to select the candidate that the voters they represent voted for.

   

   Mir Kamran Meyer

   October 17, 2008 at 2:15 pm

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