Lets get rid of those election thingies altogether too!
They want New York to go first and then to just cancel all the others since the result will be pre-determined. :)
I think there is a legitimate question as to why the first several elections in the nomination process are never rotated around. You would think the parties would also require the first few states to hold elections in the nomination process actually regularly vote for their party in recent general elections.
Freegards
How many NYT employees could locate Iowa on a map?
I say let them change it to New York or California for first primary voting.
Nothing bad against Iowa or New Hampshire - but for both the GOP and the Dems, my ideal first state for voting would be Missouri.
Why?
It has suburbs (KC and St Louis). It has inner cities (both KC and St Louis). The northern part of the state identifies with the Midwest mostly. The southern part of the state identifies with the south mostly.
Demographically (race-wise), it’s about as close as you can get to a representative picture of a typical American state.
IMHO, Missouri should be the first state to vote.
I don’t like Iowa going first because Iowa is a leftist state. Furthermore, it’s not an election it’s a caucus for everybody can see how you vote. Also, it allows the same day so after this flood in from everywhere. Iowa is a farce. Also, it skews National policy in favor of big Ag, ethanol, open borders etc.
Democrats dont really like it because it’s got a 100% yes 100% prediction rate for who the democrat nominee is going to be
if you win the Iowa caucuses you are the democrat nominee
make no mistake about it
and it’s a beautiful thing
these caucus is for Democrats because they need to talk with each other and have multiple votes especially when you have a big plate of candidates like this
the Republicans who make sense can get their arguments done very quickly whereas because liberals are ruled by emotion these things can go back-and-forth there’s tons of silly women involved in it can get very emotional and run around in circles and that’s why when it all gets hammered out in the Iowa caucus style that’s how they figure out who the Democrat nominees actually going to be Accurately
Why not start the candidate selection voting with the most balanced and unbiased electorate in the entire nation: Washington, DC?
If our oaths have meaning, that is the accepted duty of naturalization.
I must admit I am tired of these two states going first too. Should be a rotation of small states: IA, NV, NH, and SC.
Why not have a national primary election day? That way, certain states won’t have this perceived unfair advantage in the nomination process.
I understand and appreciate people saying that other states or regions should be able to have the first primaries/caucuses, but I question why we can’t just have a national primary election day,and wouldn’t that be the fairest way of all of nominating candidates?
Of course, parties don’t have to have primaries at all. They can choose nominees in a smoke filled convention hall with delegates chosen by the powers that be.
Even under the current set up, either party could decline to hold caucuses/primaries in Iowa and New Hampshire. This situation just evolved for them to go first. There’s no reason they need to always go first, or to have their caucuses/primaries at all.
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”.
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%).
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!