Posted on 01/27/2020 11:50:55 AM PST by Kaslin
Nationwide primary would mean only candidates with a billion dollar budget going in would be able to compete.
The national parties have sets of rules. They could be changed, of course.
Yes, Missouri is representative of America.
Ironically, the last Democrat to win Missouri at the presidential level is Clinton in 1996.
The last Democrats to represent MO—Claire McCaskill and Jay Nixon-—moderate Democrats.
Like Bloomberg
Here’s an idea, Democrats. Make the first primary Washington DC and the next one in Puerto Rico. That will insure that the Dem candidate will be some race-baiting extremist that the Republican can easily defeat.
Farmers and big ag are just 1% of the economy but they get a huge disproportionate political footprint mostly due to Iowa “going first”.
I agree with you on this.
It’s actually kind of surprising that there hasn’t already been a progressivist movement to strip lily-white Iowa and New Hampshire of their special first-in-the-nation privilege which allows them to dictate the Presidential candidates of both parties.
I can only guess that it’s because both states also happen to be purple states that the two national parties are afraid to offend the voters in those states by suggesting they be stripped of their privileged status.
If those states ever lose their purple status, I expect they will also lose their first-in-the-nation privilege.
If you’re going to use numbers to make your case, you’d better be right. It’s too easy to check and prove the exaggerations (fake news) The demographics of Des Moines is much closer to the national average than he stated:
The ethnic composition of the population of Des Moines, IA is composed of 143k White Alone residents (66.5%), 28.1k Hispanic or Latino residents (13.1%), 22.9k Black or African American Alone residents (10.7%), 12.7k Asian Alone residents (5.92%), 6.95k Two or More Races residents (3.24%), 609 American Indian & Alaska Native Alone residents (0.284%), 487 Some Other Race Alone residents (0.227%), and 150 Native Hawaiian & Other Pacific Islander Alone residents (0.0698%).
Dick Gephardt won Iowa in ‘88, was not nominated.
And of course home state Tom Harkin in 1992, which rendered the caucuses irrelevant that year.
Well, why should Iowa be first? Tradition is not a good reason. I don’t know why they like having these a-holes flood their IHOPs every four years anyway, obviously it boosts their economy and that’s probably it.
I don’t care what the dems do but on our side, of the current early states, South Carolina should be first (makes sense for Dems too because of the Black vote).
Of course, and so far no one agrees with me, but it’s simply not fair at all unless the whole country votes at the same time. Imagine if it was like that in the general election (Maine used to vote early, but not for President).
I’m devising a system I’d like to see used for the GOP nomination, national caucuses with a state by state point system based on how many Republican votes the state cast in the last election (mimicking the electoral college), runoff if no one gets a majority.
I predict without change eventually every state will try to move to Super Tuesday and create a defacto national primary.
If you insist on staggering the primaries they has to be a better way to do it.
Texas starts voting Feb. 18.
I've a simple solution:
You guys do such a good job now of not reporting things that do not fit your agenda; this should be easy!
I know that 49 (or 56) other states can change their dates if they wish; so THEY can be first.
Wait ‘til that 1% shuts down!
David Leonhardt doesn’t get it.
The reason Iowa and NH are first and need to stay first - IS because they’re small enough that citizens can interact with the candidates.
If we started with large states the person with the most money AND the largest and most talented PR firm would win. Just create a TV image and buy ads. Can’t do that in Iowa and NH... nope, citizens get to take a measure of the candidates.... up close and personal...which helps all of us.
No, because New Hampshire (and probably Iowa) law says that the state has to go first.
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