They'll steal the election no matter what primary rules apply. Bet on it. It will either be stolen or President Cheney will take his private army, Blackwater, to the capitol and take it via force. President for life, Dick Cheney. Has a nice ring to it doesn't it? Get out your jack boots fellas, a splendid time is guaranteed for all...

Both parties are saying this stuff! I cannot believe it will stand. I cannot believe the state parties made these moves! Nobody wins, and nothing is accomplished.

thanks to the electorial system,my vote in a red state doesn't get counted anyway,but i am sick of the way the primaries are run.why should a few voters in a few states pick who the nation votes for?i am tired of seeing a few states pandered to because of the primary and electorial systems.we need a nationwide system that does not disenfranchize anyone...

If they didn't want to lose their votes, the states shouldn't have moved up their dates...or worse, have agreed to such rules in the first place.

I have NO sympathy for them.

How is it that this country was able to hold elections for the last 200 years, and yet since 2000, it's gotten increasingly more challenging for them to be held freely and fairly? Do we need the UN to step in and supervise the conduct of our elections?

I mean, what's the problem, exactly? Is it that there's a predetermined outcome power players want and when it's not forthcoming, they bugger the system to make it produce what they want? (I'd call that the Bush/Cheney School of Electioneering) Are we just getting too stupid to hold elections, anymore? Too postmodern and cavalier about rules to make this work -- "What IS fair? What IS free?" Is the two-party system so moribund that it's just unraveling before our eyes? Even the ability to tally votes has become apparently too difficult, let alone setting dates on a calendar.

For a country so busy trying to rhetorically position itself as a beacon of democracy for the world to emulate, it's getting pretty embarrassing that we're apparently losing the ability to conduct elections of any sort.

Once elections are thoroughly sabotaged, seems like the next step will be to contest EVERY election as a way of hijacking the system and making votes entirely irrelevant. Boy, would the GOP ever love that. This whole cats-fighting-in-a-bag primary nonsense is just a preview, I fear.

... while they had their big Orlando pow-wow about how the DNC was punishing the Florida Democrats. The local GOP members were all over television spouting how the GOP cares about Florida and would never do this to *them*.

HA!

So now after the Orlando rally/debates are over, the FL Republicans find themselves in the same mess as the Democrats.