 ouyangwulong says: There are good reasons why our primary is seldom, and probably shouldn't be relevant. First, is because Washington State is largely full of people who are willfully out of touch with national trends. We're independent, and most often not interested in following the rest of the nation. Something that is taken for granted as conventional wisdom in Seattle's overwhelmingly liberal voting public would be highly controversial elsewhere. That's why we elect the nation's most radical congressman by margins of up to 80%. In Republican areas Washingtonians are no different - we all love crazy people who make no attempt to moderate their ideals. (Me included, I must confess.) The second reason we shouldn't matter is that our primary system is so complex, redundant and useless it could only have been developed by Microsoft's web developers. (More on this in comments...) So while most states have either a primary or a caucus, we have both! For the Republicans the primary counts for about half, and caucuses count for the other half, but for Democrats the primary doesn't count at all. So GOP voters have to vote twice, making up for the fact that they are only about 25% of Washington voters. This reminds me of everthing Microsoft produces these days: over-designed and under-functional, piecemeal and patchwork, without any overall vision. Of course, the Inlandseamen of the Pacific Union, with its mysterious name (If it's the Pacific how can it be inland?!) will play a big role.  Other demographics include: Coffee addicts, culture snobs, geeks who want to vot... |
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