The Education Wonks lament the fact that three states have so much power in determining who gets the nomination for President of the United States. Here at NYC Educator, we share that disappointment, and we have a simple proposal to remedy the situation.
Now Iowa, for example, has about 3 million inhabitants, while New York has closer to 20. Let's make this race interesting. Let's move up the primaries in The Education Wonks' home state, California, and ours in New York, so that they come first. Why should the folks in Iowa get to meet all those politicians in their coffee shops and diners? We have coffee shops and diners too.
Now skeptics among you will say, "Sure, NYC Educator, we can move the primaries, but won't that just move the problem somewhere else?" That's a fair question. But take a look at those politicians after they run all over Iowa drinking a hundred cups of coffee every day. They're working themselves to death. Just think how much harder they'd have to work if they were covering NY and CA instead of Iowa and New Hampshire.
Now sure, fewer of them would be able to keep up. But that's just natural selection. I think Republicans and Democrats can agree we want the toughest candidates possible. So if two or three collapse from massive coronaries, or simply fall off diner stools from sheer exhaustion, we'd know right away that they weren't up to the job.
Admittedly, we'd still have the problem of a few states determining who the candidates are. But you gotta admit, candidates who can visit every coffee shop in NY and CA probably deserve a shot at becoming President.
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