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Originally Posted by Mutt
i like watching it, it's traditional and quaint to see candidates in small town America spending so much time interacting with people door to door, handshake by handshake - it would suck to lose that but what about the Democrats in states like California who will never get a chance to cast a vote or campaign for a back of the pack candidate they feel strongly about?
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The problem with that is if the first primaries are held in a state like California, then retail politics means nothing and money means everything.
You can't campaign door to door in California, it would be all about the media buy. That would make an already flawed system even worse IMO.
The reason Iowa and New Hampshire are important is because anybody can win there. By winning there a nobody governor or congressman can get national media attention that they wouldn't otherwise get.