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sunonmars

(8,657 posts)
Tue Mar 10, 2020, 08:31 PM Mar 2020

Surely Iowa and NH need to stop now as 1st in the nation votes

If anything, this primary proves that Iowa and Nh going first are only ruining potential winners.

I don't think they are representative anymore of the Dem electorate that other states do..

Perhaps we need All first 4 states all on the one night, or we completely change the first 2.

What do others think.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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Surely Iowa and NH need to stop now as 1st in the nation votes (Original Post) sunonmars Mar 2020 OP
It's hard for you to complain about IA and NH when it worked out for your candidate Renew Deal Mar 2020 #1
I think what really matters frazzled Mar 2020 #2
AMEN!!!! GitRDun Mar 2020 #3
THIS sunonmars Mar 2020 #5
Could not agree more. HarlanPepper Mar 2020 #4
 

Renew Deal

(82,862 posts)
1. It's hard for you to complain about IA and NH when it worked out for your candidate
Tue Mar 10, 2020, 08:33 PM
Mar 2020

And maybe Biden turned it around because he wasn't focusing properly on IA and NH. He could have lost any first state if he campaigned that way in those places.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Undecided
 

frazzled

(18,402 posts)
2. I think what really matters
Tue Mar 10, 2020, 08:35 PM
Mar 2020

Is that the media and press needs to stop giving these states so much attention and weight. And they need to acknowledge that results there are absolutely not predictive.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

GitRDun

(1,846 posts)
3. AMEN!!!!
Tue Mar 10, 2020, 08:38 PM
Mar 2020

I got pummeled early on when I suggested Biden would torch the field once we got to SC.

He's the only candidate who gets support from all of the parties demographic groups.

IA and NH, mostly white states, have no business whittling down the group of candidates.

It should be states whose demographics represent the country as a whole....period.

I don't understand why "tradition" trumps demographics.

For all we know Corey Booker, Kamala Harris, Klobuchar, or Warren might have caught fire if the first couple states matched US demographics.

We've got to get rid of these structural problems that favor old white guys.

And I'm an old white guy!

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

HarlanPepper

(2,042 posts)
4. Could not agree more.
Tue Mar 10, 2020, 08:39 PM
Mar 2020

They are not representative of the country. Either state.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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