To the DNC.....If it ain't broke dont fix it

The DNC is adding other states to the early caucus' Nevada and So. Carolina. This will force the candidates to spread themselves pretty thin. Iowa and NH will no longer be the key states in the primary kickoff...What is Howard Dean thinking...This will backfire and Howard Dean and the DNC will regret doing this..This will only give the Repukes ammunition to try and discredit Democrats for being
disorganized.........The Iowa and NH Democratic leaders should be screaming......

the first week of Feb again. I wish they had put some states two weeks after New Hampshire and then two weeks after that. This would decrease the effect NH has as a deciding primary. (And who's bright idea was it to have caucuses and primaries in Jan. anyway? These should be pushed way into the end of Feb.)

Bunching everything up only adds to the power of Iowa and NH. Sigh! We need more time to consider a nominee, not less.

It is a process that has played out in committee meetings since then. Some of the meetings have been on C-Span.

I think this is only the beginning of the changes.

Mind you I think the system needs a rather more radical overhaul than the DNC is doing, but it is most definately broken.

Any candidate who gets good results in Iowa and New Hampshire has a very real leg up on the others, usually they become the de facto "front-runner". They do not always win the nomination, but they have a definate advantage. The reverse is also true; a candidate who does not place well in these two states faces a huge obstacle to overcome.

Why should this be? Why do those two states play such a pivotal role in the process, every single election cycle? At the very least that role of being the early states, determining so much of what happens later, should be rotated around. Further, using these two particular states virtually ensures that a very moderate candidate will emerge in the early going as the man (or woman) to beat. Although of course, chances are not good that a woman will carry either of those two states anytime soon, at least not in the primaries.

I can't recall the last time my current state, Florida, played any role whatsoever in selecting the nominee. This despite the fact that it controls more electoral college votes and has far more Democratic voters than Iowa and New Hampshire combined. Does that not sound broken to you?