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HUFFINGTON
07.21.13
AMERICANS WOULD LIKE TO
HAVE A PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY
PROCESS THAT DOESN’T SUCK
HE PROCESS by which
we elect presidents
sucks canal water, and
people hate it. One of
the things that people really hate
about it is the long and drawn-out
T
primary process, in which a few
states fight to the death to be the
first to hold primaries, and then
once those are done, everyone
agrees to pretend for a while that
it isn’t completely obvious who is
going to eventually win. Then, after
a few months of that fiction, everyone gets tired of pretending and
Voters
cast their
ballots at an
Alhambra,
Calif., polling
station in
2012.