I have known for years that to insist on holding both Iowa and New Hampshire caucuses/primaries unfairly skews the primaries of the states as neither of these two states is representative of the 48 other states, Iowa open caucus and New Hampshire open primary where democrats can cross the line and vote the GOP ticket but even then, they do not represent the 48 other states.
If blacks cared to make a point, they are definitely disproportionately misrepresented in both states, where especially in New Hampshire, one could travel from town to town and never see a black person. In Iowa, when much of the state is farming, it is rare to find blacks except for the university communities and the state capitol where government workers enjoy a much higher representation of minorities.
But, back to your point, GOP delegates are pledged to follow the primary vote, which in many states are "winner take all" but a large percentage have been moved to the proportional votes.
In Kansas, for instance with four (4) districts, the delegates were divided in each district according to the largest vote tally, then distributed according to the total votes, or no winner take all.
Last time, with Mitt Romney becoming the final candidate, won no district at all in Kansas. The highest he came in any district was third!!!
Mitt didn't win in Iowa either yet the total count because of that winner take all rule, gave him the highest number of delegates.
The GOP continues to play those games and because of that and also because they are not about to allow the person most of the voters want, they rig the total by deciding that the delegate rich states go with the winner take all.
Except for that rule no way could John McCain ever have been elected as the primary winner, dittos, Bob Dole!!!
That's not how the election law in New Hampshire works. Democrats cannot vote a Republican primary ballot. However, people that are not registered in either party can choose which party to join on election day. So both first time voters and the many people who register as undeclared voters can pick which party's ballot they want to vote on at the primary.
Undeclared voters tend to pick the ballot of the party which has the most interesting contests, so in a situation where one party doesn't have a real contested race the undeclared voters will join in an skew the results. Since the Democratic party tends to manage their primaries carefully to not really have more than one serious candidate the undeclared voters end up voting in the Republican primary.
In this election cycle, if Sanders is an actual challenge to Hillary Clinton in the primary I would expect to see a lot of undeclared but liberal leaning voters grab Democratic primary ballots.
Remember that Trump agreed to “toe the line” with the Republican RINOe leadership as long as THEY WERE FAIR TO HIM.
This definitely “not fair” isn’t it? I think he is well aware of this and already has his legal team ready to pounce on the GOP when they don’t choose him as their candidate for President......WHICH THEY WILL CERTAINLY DO. THE “FIX” IS ALREADY IN!
He is no fool and expects this to happen and has planned for it.