Kill the tradition: N.H. and
Iowa should not vote first
Boston Globe,
by
Editorial
Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter,
2/5/2020 10:45:11 AM
A hundred years ago, New Hampshire blazed a trail as the first among 20 states to hold a 1920 presidential primary election. It is a tradition that has endured for the century since, and will repeat on Feb. 11 — a fact owed not just to custom, but to the state’s leaders and voters clinging to their power to shape elections, and thus, the nation. In Iowa, where chaos has ensued since Monday night’s caucus results have been called into question, leaders have been just as reluctant to relinquish their decades-long disproportionate influence over the country’s presidential elections as the first-in-the-nation caucuses.
The first-in-the-nation primary in New Hampshire
Reply 1 - Posted by:
vinegrower 2/5/2020 11:13:17 AM (No. 308237)
Every time things go wrong for the Dems they want the rules changed. They never create their own problems it's Russia, too many whites and on and on.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Vanimal 2/5/2020 11:13:57 AM (No. 308239)
It figures a left wing paper would punish a state because of their color of their skin not their voting record. The Boston Globe's only use is to line a bird cage or start a fire. Nothing more.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Vanimal 2/5/2020 11:14:58 AM (No. 308240)
The Iowa Circus should be punished.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Philipsonh 2/5/2020 11:21:23 AM (No. 308247)
The Democrats should make Ca., NY, and IL. first, just to get the cheating out of the way. Then they can have a relatively honest primary fight afterwards. Maybe they should ONLY have coin tosses.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
3XALADY 2/5/2020 11:22:42 AM (No. 308250)
@4 Looks like you can add Iowa to the list. Who will be next.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
PChristopher 2/5/2020 11:22:48 AM (No. 308251)
I can kind of see why NH would be among the first to vote since they were among the original 13 (9th to join), but Iowa? Why should they go first? I've never understood that logic. And why are they allowed to continue with such an arcane system? It's like taking your driver's test with a horse.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
frodo 2/5/2020 11:28:36 AM (No. 308257)
Iowa should absolutely be the first. That way the results might get counted before election day.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Quigley 2/5/2020 11:46:16 AM (No. 308283)
Abolish the Dimokkkraps party like was done with the nazi party after it lost WWII.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
clayusmcret 2/5/2020 11:46:40 AM (No. 308284)
I've said this for a number of elections. No other state matches Iowa for demographics and New Hampshire isn't much more representative of the majority of states. Iowa has proven once again that it has no business always being the first primary state out of the chute. I suggest they rotate the first two states, selecting one large and one small each time, and continually rotate first and second state-starts among all 50 states.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 2/5/2020 11:47:59 AM (No. 308286)
Imagine, the people gather in a space, they are free to try and sway others to their candidate (usually with some sort of quid pro quo), they then separate into groups based on the candidate they support.
Those groups are counted, and totals are known.
How hard is that?
The Republicans also held their caucus, and it does not seem like they had any issues counting.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bamboozle 2/5/2020 12:03:15 PM (No. 308300)
I wonder how many actual voters took part in the Iowa circus? Seems like a pretty small number of voters have too much leverage in the election choice given to the rest of us?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
LadyHen 2/5/2020 12:08:21 PM (No. 308309)
The Iowa woman who wanted her vote back after she cast it for Bootyguy and THEN found out he was a homosexual.... THAT is an Iowa Democrat. Bootyguys swishy persuasion has been plastered everywhere for a year. They have even interviewed his "partner" about what he would do as "First Man." And she didn't know??
Some people are simply too stupid to vote.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
NHChemist 2/5/2020 12:15:41 PM (No. 308317)
NH is a small state with only 10 counties and one can drive from one end to he other is a few hours. It is almost equally divided between Democrats, Republicans and Independents. Most importantly, we take our first in the nation primary very seriously. Turnout is high and many view the candidates in person at rallies. The cost to run is low, and if you can make your case for President, the money will come in for the larger, more expensive states.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 2/5/2020 12:23:26 PM (No. 308325)
I agree with OP. I've always said that all state primaries should be on the same day, or at minimum the same week.. I live in a state that has one of the last primaries.... By then there IS no choice.. everyone has dropped out but the ones that the Party Bosses have chosen, and/or the one with the most money.
Given that campaigns now start a year and a half out, the old excuse that the candidates need the time to campaign in each state for two months before each primary is specious at best.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
KatieJo 2/5/2020 12:25:55 PM (No. 308328)
What happened here has nothing to do with Iowa being the location. It has everything to do with the corruption of the democrat party and it's efforts to manipulate the vote to get the results they want. They were flipping coins for final delegate allocation! I'm surprised they weren't boiling rat entrails in oil and reading the "signs". These people are NOT going to let the actual voters decide anything.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Terry_tr6 2/5/2020 1:37:24 PM (No. 308403)
I disagree.Keep it going as is. This was the best political theater of the year! the faces of the news talking heads and the comments mocking the democrats were priceless. Nothing shows off their inability to actually do something like wacthing them try!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
qr4j 2/5/2020 2:21:24 PM (No. 308461)
The problems were not with the State of Iowa. The problems were -- and still are! -- with Democrats, their app, and their basic math skills (also known as "counting"). Rumor has it that Democrat males -- at least in Iowa -- have to remove their socks and shoes as well as their underpants in order to count to 21.
Don't pick on the entire state. Republicans did just fine holding their quadrennial caucus for president.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
zoidberg 2/5/2020 3:58:39 PM (No. 308603)
Here's what I would do. Every four years, after the Electoral College votes, there should be a lottery to decide what order the states hold their primaries.
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I would be very happy to see all primaries and/or caucuses held on the same day.