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The first of the primary elections for the Republican candidates for regional Governor have been held, as of 3M12.003. Except it is not a primary, but a caucus. And the votes do not bind the local delegates to support the winner in nominating them to the primary.
What is the point of this? It sounds as if it was designed by an Administratum committee. Why else would it involve bringing an necessarily large number of people together at an inconvenient, forcing them to listen to speeches for several hours, give them an official input form, and then completely disregard the collected data?
Worse still, the results were more troubling than expected. While Newton Leroy Gingrich received only 13.3% of the votes, forcing him down to a far less galling fourth place, and Michele Marie Bachmann has left the race, Richard John Santorum received 24.5%, just eight votes less than Willard Mitt Romney. How can the unmentionable candidate be so popular among these people? Why did Jon Meade Huntsman only manage to find 745 people (0.6%) to support him? Why did Herman Cain garner 58 votes? He announced he is not seeking the election anymore! Why vote for something that no longer functionally exists?
Just declare the current Governor to be ruler for life and be done with it, please. I cannot take this madness. Or call down Exterminatus on this "Iowa". It is defective.
Addendum: Willard Mitt Romney had a margin of victory of eight votes. If this were drawn from a leadership council or a more sane governing body, the number would be close, but not unreasonable. But no, this was drawn from 122,255 citizens, self-selected from 614,913 citizens registered as "Republican" in this "Iowa" region, which possesses a total estimated population of 3,062,309. That is 0.000065% of those who voted, 0.000013% of those who could have voted, and 0.000003% of the total local population. How can you trust these people, when the winning margin of a serially inconsistent individual and the one saddled with the Unmentionable is so minute? How can you trust these people when the winning margin is 7.25 times smaller than the number of votes cast for a candidate that was not in the race and requires immediate chemgelding?
I find only one positive aspect in all of this: If they are truly stuck with the ascendancy of Richard John Santorum, then those who take the initiative to attempt to research him will employ this "Google" datanet search, and they will be immediately confronted by the Unmentionable. That should curtail his attempts to rise further.
What is the point of this? It sounds as if it was designed by an Administratum committee. Why else would it involve bringing an necessarily large number of people together at an inconvenient, forcing them to listen to speeches for several hours, give them an official input form, and then completely disregard the collected data?
Worse still, the results were more troubling than expected. While Newton Leroy Gingrich received only 13.3% of the votes, forcing him down to a far less galling fourth place, and Michele Marie Bachmann has left the race, Richard John Santorum received 24.5%, just eight votes less than Willard Mitt Romney. How can the unmentionable candidate be so popular among these people? Why did Jon Meade Huntsman only manage to find 745 people (0.6%) to support him? Why did Herman Cain garner 58 votes? He announced he is not seeking the election anymore! Why vote for something that no longer functionally exists?
Just declare the current Governor to be ruler for life and be done with it, please. I cannot take this madness. Or call down Exterminatus on this "Iowa". It is defective.
Addendum: Willard Mitt Romney had a margin of victory of eight votes. If this were drawn from a leadership council or a more sane governing body, the number would be close, but not unreasonable. But no, this was drawn from 122,255 citizens, self-selected from 614,913 citizens registered as "Republican" in this "Iowa" region, which possesses a total estimated population of 3,062,309. That is 0.000065% of those who voted, 0.000013% of those who could have voted, and 0.000003% of the total local population. How can you trust these people, when the winning margin of a serially inconsistent individual and the one saddled with the Unmentionable is so minute? How can you trust these people when the winning margin is 7.25 times smaller than the number of votes cast for a candidate that was not in the race and requires immediate chemgelding?
I find only one positive aspect in all of this: If they are truly stuck with the ascendancy of Richard John Santorum, then those who take the initiative to attempt to research him will employ this "Google" datanet search, and they will be immediately confronted by the Unmentionable. That should curtail his attempts to rise further.
