Some people need to get over themselves
by digby
So Michael Bloomberg is considering a run for president but it’s obvious he will miss Iowa. And Iowans don’t like it one bit:
As former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg reportedly eyes a late entrance into the 2016 race as an Independent, many Iowa voters bristled at the thought of a candidate jumping in well after much of their political relevance has passed.
“It doesn’t seem fair, does it? These people have been working for months and months,” Karen Fowser said nodding towards the Marco Rubio rally she’d just attended. Her husband Bob agreed: “You get to know a person.”
[…]“I think it’s ridiculous,” Lynn Frank said. ”It’s too late, we don’t need any more, we’ve got people to pick from.”
“It’s unfair, these candidates have done a lot of legwork,” Ann Halt said. If Bloomberg were to run, it’d be well “past Iowa… so he’s only speaking to maybe the large states.”
Right. I don’t care about Bloomberg and hope fervently he doesn’t get into the race. But as someone who lives in the most populous state in the union and has never cast a presidential primary vote that mattered, this Iowa self-importance is annoying. I’m sure they’re very nice people. But they aren’t America. If someone got in to the race late and made a run for it without their imprimatur our democracy would survive just fine.
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