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Congratulations to our presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden!
Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: What if SC and NV went first? [View all]democrattotheend
(11,605 posts)6. That's not entirely true
Parties don't set primary dates, but at least back in 2008, the Democratic Party punished states that set their primaries before Iowa or New Hampshire. Florida and Michigan disobeyed that rule, and Florida was stripped of half its delegates and most of the candidates took their names off the Michigan ballot, which made things incredibly complicated in terms of apportioning delegates. As far as I know this rule has not been changed since then - correct me if I am wrong.
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Accomodations can be made. SC and NV can move up even. No way should these two...
brush
Feb 2020
#10
O was a "movement" candidate and '08 was a different time (optimistic and pre-trump..
brush
Feb 2020
#14
The inability of AA candidates to get traction in diverse states ended their campaigns.
Kaleva
Feb 2020
#15
Maybe, or maybe the intense media scrutiny of low Iowa polling had something to do with that?
brush
Feb 2020
#18
AAs are susceptible to the effects of poor polling repeated endlessly by the media too.
brush
Feb 2020
#22
Oddly, Obama did very well in small all-white states in the 2008 primaries
democrattotheend
Feb 2020
#25
When was the last time a Democrat won a presidential election in South Carolina?
Renew Deal
Feb 2020
#5
It's the primary not the general, and SC has a large AA voting base. Moving SC up would be a...
brush
Feb 2020
#11
As for Georgia, there's the blatant vote suppression factor, and SC as always been early. What's...
brush
Feb 2020
#16
And Georgia and NC are suddenl blue states? And you think SC will appreciated being
brush
Feb 2020
#24
We'd have a much more realistic portrait of how Democrats might vote in the general.
calimary
Feb 2020
#28