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Citizen Kang Donating Member (424 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-04 01:56 PM
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4. It's not Iowa and New Hampshire's fault...
...that we got stuck with Kerry this time. It's the front-loaded primary process and the bias of the corporate media. Dems need to go back to the old primary system and Iowa and New Hampshire won't become as important again. A one-day national primary would be a bad idea, we'd get the flavor of the day without any idea of how that candidate can handle a long-term campaign. How many of you Dean haters would have wanted a one-day, national primary in December '03??

Go back to the elongated primary process that served Bill Clinton so well and the Democratic Party. Bill did not win Iowa or New Hampshire but still won the nomination. If we had the front-loaded primaries in 1992, who would we be stuck with??? Think about it.
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