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I'm rather puzzled to hear so many people demanding that "every vote must count" in the primaries lately.
I've been voting in the primaries for more than twenty years, and this is the FIRST time that my vote could have actually made a difference. Of course it didn't make a difference; my first, second, and third candidates dropped out before the primary came, and my fourth pick didn't win. But at least in theory my vote COULD have mattered, and I got some calls from the campaigns of both candidates.
For every primary BEFORE this one, though, the candidate had already been picked long before I got to vote. My vote was an exercise in utter futility.
So why is it suddenly not okay for Florida and Michigan to undergo the vote-irrelevancy that so many of us late-primary voter have always faced?
The primary system is fucked. Something needs to be done about it.
That said, I thought it was a pretty funny cartoon. And I will admit that these constantly changing rationales by the Clinton campaign have become more than a little annoying. Do they think the voters are too stupid to notice the constant switcheroos?
I wonder if Tom Tomorrow reads comments here?
