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Algernon Moncrieff

(5,790 posts)
Thu Feb 13, 2020, 06:58 PM Feb 2020

In 2024, assuming we have free and fair elections, which state should vote first in the Dem Primary? [View all]

I realize it's a big assumption at this point.


12 votes, 2 passes | Time left: Time expired
Stick with tradition - Iowa and New Hampshire
1 (8%)
A very Blue state - Like California
1 (8%)
A Swing state - like Florida or North Carolina
2 (17%)
A deep-Red state - like Mississippi
0 (0%)
A state that is Red that we really want to flip - like Texas
1 (8%)
No state should vote first. They should all vote at once.
7 (58%)
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Change voting day to first Saturday or Sunday of November. at140 Feb 2020 #1
All at once doesn't really work, either. TwilightZone Feb 2020 #2
Maybe group states by size but try to balance populations csziggy Feb 2020 #21
maybe not all at once but over the course of one or two weeks. Kurt V. Feb 2020 #27
Just as important: DURHAM D Feb 2020 #3
For purposes of the question, whatever a state has now is what they have 4 years from now. Algernon Moncrieff Feb 2020 #5
How about a rotation? PETRUS Feb 2020 #4
+ rotation is a good idea lunasun Feb 2020 #11
The problem is that the DNC does not control when primaries are conducted. LiberalFighter Feb 2020 #6
Yes, but everybody wants to go first Algernon Moncrieff Feb 2020 #9
Again, the DNC does not decide when the primaries are conducted. LiberalFighter Feb 2020 #24
Iowa and New Hampshire are swing states RhodeIslandOne Feb 2020 #7
They should be grouped and vote on same day. honest.abe Feb 2020 #8
Maybe the last 4 states as of now -choose from those . I saw this last week about one of them lunasun Feb 2020 #10
Two. Ohio and North Carolina. blm Feb 2020 #12
You know, I like that! AleksS Feb 2020 #15
I second that. No Democrat has ever won without Ohio nt doc03 Feb 2020 #20
No individual first state LuvLoogie Feb 2020 #13
All at once is a fools errand....and a horrible idea. AncientGeezer Feb 2020 #14
They should go by region in groups lees1975 Feb 2020 #16
Massachusetts boston bean Feb 2020 #17
Sectional primary whistler162 Feb 2020 #18
I voted for "a swing state" and then I kept reading and say "they should all vote at once" gollygee Feb 2020 #19
It would mainly mean that only the wealthiest could run. blm Feb 2020 #22
Well that's a problem gollygee Feb 2020 #23
NH state law mandates it go first, so that is a problem, the DNC would have to say its delegates Celerity Feb 2020 #25
I say Illinois Poiuyt Feb 2020 #26
50 state round robin steel cage Dagstead Bumwood Feb 2020 #28
Prairie States Primary Mponti Feb 2020 #29
I think two states one like Ohio or Florida marlakay Feb 2020 #30
This is a REALLY tough question. Laelth Feb 2020 #31
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