I'm surprised nothing has been said about the new Democratic Primary

[INdemo]

Schedule and caucus'..From what I understand about this, by scheduling these primaries so close together we will have a Presidential nominee by the end of February..I disagree with the DNC because they just made all other primaries totally meaningless.
The party as a whole should have had a voice in this decision whether by mail or an online survey..
Probably the first time I am in disagreement with Gov. Dean.

[TheFarseer]

1. why not have all primaries on the same day?

sometime in May sounds right.

[Mass]

2. I agree - The first 4 primaries are way to close. It will be worse than

it was before.

And why dont strong democratic states have still no voices in the process: NY, CA, MA, NJ, IL, ... are the one who will provide the core of the votes and they have asked to stay silent until it is too late.

Not a 50 state solution, a 4 state solution.

[Dr.Phool]

3. I agree.

Our primary in Florida was totally meaningless by the time it rolled around.

For all our Democrats, and electoral votes, we should have more of a say.

I'm almost ready to go back to the smoke filled backrooms.

[INdemo]

4. It's gonna hurt the voter turn out and these tight

congressional races just might swing to the Repukes because of it...
Yep.... I am in total agreement with the NH chairperson..bad move.
Local races just dont bring out voters and the case in my district where most Democrats dont know who our congressional candidate is, just wont vote.

[demosincebirth]

7. I definitely agree

Truly a ****ed-up system of selecting a presidential nominee.

[madfloridian]

5. Did you hear Tubb Jones on this issue?

It was started in 2004. There is a committee appointed by McAuliffe in Dec. 2004, they had meetings on C-Span, they had meetings with the DNC members, and the two new states were vote.

And it does give two more states a voice. That is more than had a voice in 04. Only two did then.

There is a large Hispanic population in NV and a large African American population in SC.

My vote still won't count, but I am ok with two more states getting a chance.

It was a committee and member vote, not a Dean thing.

[INdemo]

6. Well yes but Dean certainly endorsed the idea and pushed it forward.

We will just have to wait and see ..Kerry didn't wrap up the nomination with the NH primary, so it was certainly more than 2 states in 2004 that decided who the nominee would be..I hope it works but I just dont want to see congressional or local candidates lose because of low voter turn out...

[madfloridian]

8. How do you know he endorsed the idea?

Maybe he just endorsed the process that started in 2004 that got the change?

[OwnedByFerrets]

9. I live in the south.

and I havent had a say in my presidential nominee in a long long time and I am not happy about it. Nowadays it seems as thought its a done deal after Iowa and that sucks.

[Mass]

10. Except if you are from SC, you still dont.