According to this story in the Detroit News, leaders of both the Republican Party, and the Democratic Party, say they favor keeping Michigan’s presidential primary in February. If the legislature does nothing, the 2012 presidential primaries will be on February 28, 2012. This violates the national party rules, which only allow Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina, to choose delegates to national conventions that early.
Michigan is one of the few states in which influential major party politicians, for years, have been saying that it is not fair to allow just four particular states to always go first.
Abolish the EVIL INSANE Electoral College — with ALL of the EVIL party hack machinations — i.e. ALL of the Prez primary INSANITY.
Try explaining the U.S.A. Prez system to any foreign person with an average I.Q. — in under 10,000 words.
Well, there’s this article from a 1996 issue of _Discover_ magazine — it’s about 5,600 words . . . start there:
http://discovermagazine.com/2004/sep/math-against-tyranny
Short result —
Half the votes in half the E.C. gerrymander areas = about 25 percent ANTI-Democracy minority rule in choosing each Prez.
Real math is about 28-30 percent in the gerrymander areas that get 270 of 538 E.C. votes — i.e. Obama, Bush II, Clinton, Bush I, etc.
When will another 1860 E.C. timebomb type election happen ???
Any body recall the MAJOR chaos caused by the top robot Michigan Donkey party hacks in 2007-2008 regarding Donkey Prez primaries ???