2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: We Should Only Let Democrats Choose Our Nominee [View all]lapucelle
(18,275 posts)in that we didn't get 24/7 news coverage beginning at least a year before any votes were even scheduled to be cast. If anything, the current situation weakens the dissent in that the assertion that "partisan political activities do not constantly engage the attention of large numbers of Americans" no longer holds.
This was a close decision, but it has stood for 40 years. Maybe someone who thinks the timetable is absurd and who was closed out of voting in NY's presidential primary should seek legal redress to test whether the decision would stand today.
I hope that those in NY who were closed out of voting in the 2016 presidential primaries will remember to register affiliation with a party before November 2019 so that it will not happen again.