Posted on 12/02/2022 7:30:46 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
President Joe Biden asked Democrats on Friday to make South Carolina the first primary state for the Democrat presidential nomination, displacing Iowa.
The president sent a letter to party leaders detailing his preference for South Carolina to be first, citing the racial diversity of the state.
“As I said in February 2020, you cannot be the Democratic nominee and win a general election unless you have overwhelming support from voters of color — and that includes Black, Brown and Asian American & Pacific Islander voters,” Biden’s letter to Democrats read, insisting that “voters of color have a voice” earlier in the primary process.
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I guarantee you that sentence was not written by Dementia Joe.
Is SC easier to have an agreement with?
The DNC wants to increase their control over the nomination process, and they know they can control the SC plantation. Iowa is way too red and way to independent for them.
Race is only incidental to this overriding concern. No one seriously thinks democrats give a hoot about “people of color” being represented.
New Hampshire has the first primary by state law.
Last time I looked-—Des Moines had 36% Hispanic & 34% White.
Ruh Roh! I thought NevaDUH was vying for that since they delivered cat cortez mantoes for the senate. Thinking back room deal on that. (d’s)We will LET YOU HAVE the gov race and dump sislak but we won’t LET YOU HAVE the senate seat as well.
The primary system is outdated. Politicians no longer need to travel by train to visit states and speak to the people. All states should primary on the same day. We’re all getting the same messages from these politicians in real time at the same time. There’s no good reason to keep doing things the way they were done decades ago.
In my view (and I know nobody cares but) the entire primary system should be scraped and the parties should be able to nominate whoever thy want. The money the states would save could turn the economy around. Just sayin.
Their party has firmer control of the vote in South Carolina primary. The more “moderate” candidates who can show well in Iowa do not have a chance where they have a monolithic vote.
everything reduced to race. you also can’t win without white voters, joe.
“New Hampshire has the first primary by state law.”
What obligation does South Carolina have to abide by a law in New Hampshire?
Yeah, because they chose so well last time. Politics isn’t a Texan sport. The country is a stake.
This is part of the payment to Clyburn for getting SloJoe the nomination in 2020.
Ah yes, the rich and diverse South Carolinian Pacific Islander community.
If the political parties were serious about getting a good feeling for candidates that would make a difference, they would heavily frontload the primaries in battleground states. If it’s a big field, run primaries in battleground states several times until a clear winner is found.
Assuming a fair election, The presidential election is already decided in 40 or so states. Only about 6 are competitive, and a handful of others could sway in a wave election.
But the party apparatchicks don’t want to do that. They have binders that they hand out for each primary season. “Stay in this hotel, bring candidate around to this diner to press the flesh at breakfast, talk with this local friendly news reporter. Buy radio ads at these stations.. Take these donors out to a steak dinner at this restaurant, get signs printed up at this print shop.” It’s the height of laziness.
Black vote in SC Dem primary voting is 60% of total Dem vote. If SC is first primary vote, it will give blacks a disproportionate influence on the nominee. Of course, the opposite could be said about NH and IA who have a higher percentage of white voters than the national average.
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