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uawchild

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4. Hey, feel free, I am sure it's a coincidence.
Tue Jun 11, 2019, 02:47 PM
Jun 2019

I know it sounds crazy and conspiratorial.

Call it cliched thinking.

Be disappointed in me for even thinking it's even fractionally a valid view.

Funny how it worked out though, eh?

Delaware was an equally small state, why wasn't it chosen as a test bed early primary state?

Sure, maybe it just happened that New Hampshire was, but, call me silly, maybe Delaware wasn't exalted because it had too large a black population?

Just saying.

I did say I was in tin foil hat territory. lol

And now, of course, tradition dictates that we KEEP the first two primary/cacus contests in these two overwhelmingly white protestant states. New Hampshire is 1.2% African American, Iowa is 2.68%.

Why not move one to, say, Delaware, which is 20.95% African American? That way it would average out to the actual national demographics.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Undecided
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