I still don’t get it - what’s with the penalties of losing delegates for moving your primary? A state should have their primary whenever they want. Back when candidates traveled by roadway & railways... One could kind of make an argument. But with technology, airplanes, and the ‘net - I just don’t get it.
This is like the game that college football plays. It is about control.
“I still don’t get it - what’s with the penalties of losing delegates for moving your primary? A state should have their primary whenever they want. Back when candidates traveled by roadway & railways... One could kind of make an argument. But with technology, airplanes, and the ‘net - I just don’t get it.”
The media and the all-important momentum are what matters now. The convention is just a show because the delegates are chosen and committed by mass numbers of voters that can be manipulated by the mass media,therefore; the nominee in reality is chosen by the perceptions that are created
in the minds of the mass of voters, reflected by the delegates chosen months before the convention of delegates.
I think "penalties" is the wrong term. I believe the intention was to coax states to make intelligent-for-the-party decisions by setting a date, after which you get full slate of delegates and prior you get half a slate, to balance it out. You want to go early? You have to balance that out with going later delegate-wise. Its still a state decision - early impact/less delegates or less impact/full delegates.