Never Ending Primary

“All this has happened before, and all of it will happen again.”– Leobin, Battlestar Galactica

Don’t know about you, but the Democratic Primary Election is starting to feel like one of those epic 30-part miniseries, or a season of Lost. Just when you think its over: CRAZY TWIST!

Which is soooo ironic given that the whole plan for this year’s primaries in both parties was to have a quick nomination process that culminated with the Feb 5th Super Tuesday event. Now that we know how that worked out, we have to wonder what went wrong?

Only that’s not the right question. Its always like this, as David Greenberg tells us over at Slate magazine.

The year 1972 is when the current primary system came into being, and to review the races ever since is to behold a panorama of Democratic infighting that makes the Clinton-Obama fisticuffs look tame.

[Ed. note: 1972! That’s before even this old man was born!]

In two pages over at Slate, Greenberg lays out the whole history of the modern primary system for Democrats. The moral of the story: it’s not over till it’s over.

Face The Race Strikes Back!

Today from 1-2 PM PST its Bride of Son of Cousin of Face The Race!

King Anyi and producer Brandon McFarland are rounding up fresh music and voices from around the nation to break down yesterday’s Super Tuesday Jr.

Listen today on the radio stream.

The Last Word From Ohio

Our final audio postcard from the crew at WDPS-FM in Dayton comes from Rob aka Herbert:

Rob doesn’t just want a President, he’s looking for a leader. Someone who will kick start the economy and blaze a trail for working class kids like him.

Check out the the postcards from Trudy and Vern.

Dayton Speaks!

Okay, so its not all of Dayton… at least not all at once. Yet we’ve do have more from our friends at WDPS-FM in Dayton, Ohio for you on this Super Tuesday Jr. Ohio’s Sec. of State is predicting as much as a 50% turnout of registered voters, but our next audio postcard comes from a young man who won’t be at the polls.

Vern doesn’t get to vote today, but he’d like to. He’s looking forward to some new blood in the White House, and hopes that his mother and sibling, all of whom are voting today, carry his voice to the polls.

Live (Almost) From Dayton

Unless you’ve been sleeping under a rock, you know there’ are primaries today in Texas and Ohio. Our attention turns to the Buckeye State, where we’ve scored a series of audio postcards from WDPS-FM, The Radio Voice of the Dayton Public Schools, in Dayton, Ohio.

First up, Trudy,

who finds a deep resemblance between national politics and the popularity contests you find in high school. [1:05- MP3 format.]

Track the day’s election news at CNN, Time’s The Page, and Politico.