Strickland did not say anything about Iowa "while campaigning for Hillary" [View All]

[ruggerson]

the other OP is a complete lie. It is mimicking the same suggestion Matt Drudge uses, only Matt Drudge himself doesn't even go so far as to say "while campaigning for Hillary," because he knows it's not true.

Primaries are for legitimately debating ideas and attacking other candidates with the truth.

This isn't the truth and it should be called out.


on edit:

Here's the actual story, which the poster got off of Drudge:

http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/national_world/stories/2007/12/30/EARLYSTATES.ART_ART_12-30-07_A1_IU8TRE8.html?adsec=politics&sid=101

Beginning the presidential nominating process in Iowa, as will occur this week, "makes no sense," says Gov. Ted Strickland, who recently campaigned there for Sen. Hillary Clinton.

"I'd like to see both parties say, 'We're going to bring this to an end,' " he said.

It's too late to do that for 2008, though, which is why the candidates and thousands of out-of-state supporters and reporters are trudging through Iowa this week -- and then on to New Hampshire for the run-up to its Jan. 8 primary -- in a quadrennial ritual that many agree is no way to pick a president.
Critics complain that the current system gives a few hundred thousand voters in Iowa and New Hampshire far too much influence. They contend that the skills candidates use to connect with small groups in Iowa and New Hampshire are not necessarily those that a president needs.

"I've never been in favor of it," said Sherry Jeffe, professor of political science at the University of Southern California. "I think it's foolish. It's outdated. I come from California, and for a very long time we've had very little to do with the primary."

Others say that a state like Ohio would be a better place to start the process because it better reflects the United States demographically, economically and politically.

Matthew Masur, a history professor at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., with a master's degree and doctorate from Ohio State University, said he quickly heard why New Hampshire deserved to be at the head of the line after moving there in 2004.


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