Comments on: We Don’t Want Your Early Endorsements http://www.gloriaferris.net/2006/01/early-endorsements/ one woman’s view from a place by the zoo in the city Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:37:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jill http://www.gloriaferris.net/2006/01/early-endorsements/comment-page-1/#comment-20 Jill Fri, 06 Jan 2006 00:12:44 +0000 http://www.gloriaferris.net/?p=27#comment-20 No surprise that I agree with you Gloria. In fact, one could almost say that the reverse SHOULD be true: that is, spend the money upfront, in the primary, to show us what you've got. You'll energize voters to figure out who should move on to the general election. Then, it's really showtime - who can do the most with the least, almost. Of course, that only would work if all parties had the same quantity or paucity of funds. And I guess that's where the inequality and the strategizing about endorsements starts to come in. No one else might agree with this analogy, but think of how hard we make our public school teachers work with what they have in poor school districts, and they're expected to get the same results as all other districts. Maybe the candidates need to observe how teachers and others with constant budget crises manage to get done what they have to. And then they can get done what they have to: get elected. No surprise that I agree with you Gloria. In fact, one could almost say that the reverse SHOULD be true: that is, spend the money upfront, in the primary, to show us what you’ve got. You’ll energize voters to figure out who should move on to the general election. Then, it’s really showtime – who can do the most with the least, almost.

Of course, that only would work if all parties had the same quantity or paucity of funds. And I guess that’s where the inequality and the strategizing about endorsements starts to come in.

No one else might agree with this analogy, but think of how hard we make our public school teachers work with what they have in poor school districts, and they’re expected to get the same results as all other districts. Maybe the candidates need to observe how teachers and others with constant budget crises manage to get done what they have to. And then they can get done what they have to: get elected.

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