I agree with Castro but not for his reasons.
f we were gonna have a first caucus or primary state, ideally I’d like it to be one that was a bit more representative of the US has a whole.
Take a look at Missouri. It’s Midwestern (the northern part of the state) and it’s southern (the Bootheel and the Ozarks). It has inner cities area (KC and St Louis). It has large tracts of suburbia (KC and St Louis).
Both parties could find in Missouri a state that is considerably more representative of America as a whole rather than New Hampshire.
I’ve never understood this process, where we go state by state, and early states are qualifying rounds for who is running in succeeding primaries.
Iowa and New Hampshire are qualifying rounds. Technically, each is electing tiny numbers of delegates to the party conventions. In reality, the media and candidates and donors and voters treat them as qualifying rounds.
If you don’t do well in Iowa and New Hampshire, you are not considered a serious candidate any longer.
There is no legal requirement for a political party to stage these primaries and caucuses state by state, but for reasons and history of things which I don’t know, it has evolved that way. It could be changed.
Mizzou would be better than Iowa, I like NH where it is because it exposes pretenders. The Donkey cart will dump Castro after his 26 votes in NH if not before ... and really he’s just bitching about his upcoming embarrassment in both states, the pity puta...