Curly Smith
2008-02-16 15:44:17
OmegaPaladin asks: “Is the primary system broken that it does not reflect the majority of the party?”
If you take the info here:
Presidential Election of 2004, Electoral and Popular Vote Summary
and apply it to the 2008 Republican Primary Schedule, you’d find that the states involved so far awarded 175 Electoral Votes to Bush and 277 Electoral Votes to Kerry (of the 452 possible votes, 39% went to Bush and 61% went to Kerry).
Really, I just can’t imagine why a conservative didn’t rise to the top…
But, to answer your question, McCain is the candidate of the Party Elite, the candidate of Big Government Republicanism. BTW, the above is not meant to suggest in any way that Bush is a conservative.
