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Originally Posted by GatorB
Here's great solution don't let 4 little piss ant states decide the contests. Hell candidates drop out after Iowa and NH even though less than 1% of voters have voted. I do NOT see anywhere in the Constitution where Iowa and NH should come first. Fuck them. Florida and Mich are more representative of the US as a whole than those Iowa adn NH.
Do you think this penalty is going to stop Florida and Mich and others from moving up in 2012? hell no. Now the DNC has set a precedent for the penalty they can continue to start early. So what they cut delegates in half. Florida will still has more delegates than Iowa, NH, SC and NM combined and candidates will now be able to campaign in Florida in 2012.
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I don't know why I'm bothering to respond to you because you haven't been even close to reasonable during this entire debate.
However, I will say this.
The reason small states are allowed to go first is that if California was first, or New York was first, only candidates with a shitload of money would have a chance. If all 50 states went at the same time, it would be the same scenario.
Small states like New Hampshire require retail politics to win. You can't just blanket the state with an ad buy, you have to get out and meet the voters and tell your story. That way everyone has a chance. (Like say governors that nobody has heard of from small states like Arkansas or Georgia)
Also, your argument that you don't like the rules so therefore there should be no penalty for people who break the rules isn't very persuasive.
I'm also pretty sure that if FL and MI try to pull this again in 2012 the penalty will be more severe. So your argument that "so what if it's 50% we still have alot of delegates" doesn't hold much water either.
If you want the rules changed there's a process for that. (and the rules did change some this year with South Carolina and Nevada being allowed to go before Super Tuesday)
You don't break the rules and then ask them to be changed afterwards to suit your purposes....otherwise, it's chaos.