The Road to the White House…

And here’s a man who needs no introduction. So I won’t give him one.

What, the road to the WH doesn’t first cross the Bridge to Nowhere™?

“Hey, can I borrow that shamrock?” Haley said clovially.

Yeesh. Bad enough that the US Senate– the world’s most wasteful and counterproductive affirmative action program– already distorts our political process, leading to federal policies that coddle America’s least productive Whites. But our primary system actually makes it even worse. Everyone in the wildly unrepresentative states of New Hampshire and Iowa expects to get to meet anyone who wants to be the next president. The folks of those states take their opportunities very seriously, but it all still operates to the detriment of rational policy and American security.

At Tea Party rally in Concord NH, Herman Cain wins another straw poll, with 62 percent.

Haley better watch out.

Personally, I don’t think Cain has a chance. If the choice were between two black men too many heads would explode.

Don’t worry El Vez. The general election makes up for any primary shortcomings by it’s perfectly democratic popular vote …

Boss Hogg in New Hampshire? Now there is a culture shock.

I don’t know Elvis, frankly I like the retail politics required for Iowa and New Hampshire. Think about how Iowa propelled Barak Obama. Afterall, if a black man with the funny name could win in one of the whitest states in the country (1.4% black) anything is possible.

Iowa will look interesting for the Republicans. Huckaby won last time, but it did not save his candidacy. All sorts of oddballs have won on the Republican side (didn’t Pat Buchanan or some other crazy Rightie win one particular year?). If Mitt can’t win New Hampshire, he might as well hang it up.

Not to mention, Iowa and New Hampshire offer such contrasts among conservatives. In Iowa they are social conservatives who are very religious. In New Hampshire, they pride themselves on their fiscal conservatism, don’t see a lot of religious fundamentalists in New Hampshire.

Well, NH is one of the more conservative states in New England: Live Free……………OR DIE
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It’s a little different than Massachusetts.

Ivy_B: Since you were the one here at Swampland who shared Santorum’s inclusiveness, It has ended.
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Santorum Backs Away From Campaign Slogan When Told It’s From Famous Langston Hughes Poem
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http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/04/santorum-backs-away-from-campaign-slogan-when-told-it-was-lifted-from-langston-hughes.php?ref=fpb
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O, I’m the man who sailed those early seas In search of what I meant to be my home- For I’m the one who left dark Ireland’s shore, And Poland’s plain, and England’s grassy lea, And torn from Black Africa’s strand I came To build a “homeland of the free.”
The free?
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Who said the free? Not me?
Surely not me? The millions on relief today?
The millions shot down when we strike?
The millions who have nothing for our pay?
For all the dreams we’ve dreamed
And all the songs we’ve sung
And all the hopes we’ve held
And all the flags we’ve hung,
The millions who have nothing for our pay-
Except the dream that’s almost dead today.
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O, let America be America again-
The land that never has been yet-
And yet must be-the land where every man is free.
The land that’s mine-the poor man’s, Indian’s, Negro’s, ME

I have to agree that having Iowa and New Hampshire first does put a local spin on what would otherwise be a completely national race. Does it produce bias absolutely, but what’s the alternative, a national primary, or primaries in big states, that would disproportionately benefit the big money candidate.

Thanks, apr. I had not seen that yet. Poor Rick. So difficult to keep all his prejudices pure.

A we know – his stete is the poorest in te country.
Did he share his experience on that one in NH?