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Home Front: Politix

Harry Reid: Iowa, New Hampshire Too White To Decide Future Of Country

2016-02-12

[REALCLEARPOLITICS] Sen.

Harry Reid
... the charismatic senator-for-life from Nevada, currently majority leader ...
(D-NV) defended the superdelegate system in the Democratic party nominating process in an interview with NBC's Andrea Mitchell on Thursday. Reid said Iowa and New Hampshire have "no diversity." Reid said he asked himself, "how in the world could we have the future of this country be dependent" on these two states?

"The process was totally unfair before -- eight years ago. Eight years ago, I looked at this and I thought, how in the world could we have the future of this country be dependent on Iowa, which is 93% white, and we have New Hampshire which is 97% white, no diversity, no diversity in Iowa. And have the final decision made as to who is going to be the president of the United States based on those two states, it was wrong," Reid said.

Mitchell asked Reid how the superdelegate system is a fair process if Bernie Sanders
...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords...
"clobbered" Clinton in New Hampshire with a 22-point landslide yet they both came out with 15 delegates each due to 6 superdelegates giving their support to Clinton.

"Even though [Bernie Sanders] won the election by a big margin in New Hampshire, the delegates came out even. It was not a good system, it's getting better," Reid said.

Posted by:Fred

#11 Speaking of Dirty Harry, #9 Al, that should be "corrupt, liberal 'Mormons' with ties to the Mob"

Posted by: Barbara 2016-02-12 19:17

#10 Harry Reid? Too stupid and corrupt to have much to say about anyone or anything.

Posted by: JohnQC 2016-02-12 18:17

#9 How about "corrupt, liberal Mormons with ties to the Mob are too white to decide the future of this country?"

Posted by: Frozen Al 2016-02-12 13:50

#8 I do have a set of wonders about why it's essential that the most unruly twelve percent of the population be the electoral ideal.

Because half of them actually vote?

Posted by: gorb 2016-02-12 13:12

#7 There is one race, humans. Anyone claiming to be anything else should be immediately vivisected in a lab to determine what sort of alien they are. Anyone claiming racism will also be vivisected.

Posted by: Silentbrick 2016-02-12 12:49

#6 We have reached the time where whites only get a 2/3rd vote per single vote for everyone else.

Yay racial healing.

Posted by: DarthVader 2016-02-12 12:19

#5 I do have a set of wonders about why it's essential that the most unruly twelve percent of the population be the electoral ideal.

Posted by: Fred 2016-02-12 10:56

#4 Nevada is overloaded with Italians and Mormons.

Posted by: Skidmark 2016-02-12 10:37

#3 What about Nevada, Harry? How diverse is your home state? What are you doing to get more diversity? Accepting Syrian refuges? Haitian boat people? Honduran farmers? Iraqi Christians?

Wotta maroon.

Posted by: Bobby 2016-02-12 07:56

#2 IA and NH has precisely the characteristics needed to "set the tone" of the political war. That is that they are small and relatively inconsequential.

If they weren't than the big money and corruptocrats would be all over them like flies on $hit.

They are also places that outsiders can make a mark in and show who is and isn't vulnerable. The game shouldn't be over in the first inning as it would be if one of the huge states went first.

It is the lack of patience in society that keeps trying to end the contest immediately. We want to know NOW who's going to win. Putting the big states first would just push back the start of the campaign another year because no one could afford NOT to be on top of their game from day one.

Posted by: AlanC 2016-02-12 07:51

"how in the world could we have the future of this country be dependent" on these two states?

A good question, no matter who asks it. The only time the rest of the US gives any consideration to IA or NH is during the presidential primaries. AFAIC, the first one should be in CA, FL, NY, states like that.

Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2016-02-12 01:42