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Originally Posted by honeychile
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Iowa's caucus the first of the primaries, or at least one of the first? It was Howard Dean's behavior after the 2004 Iowa caucus that killed his chances at the Presidency. So, yes, there IS a huge factor in being among the first, because the money's still there, and is still able to be raised for the winners.
I agree completely with the rest of your post.
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IA and NH are first. I'd be a pretty big fan of some sort of regional system where the country is split into five or ten state regions and a state from each region has a primary every other week - it seems like there'd be more regional national exposure.
I've always thought the whole Dean scream thing was extremely overplayed, and he did keep trucking in that race through the Wisconsin primary which was almost a month after Iowa.
I also would like to add I think the whole caucus system is a load of crap - I was elected a delegate at my local caucus only to find out that the party leadership reallocated me as an alternate delegate - lame. I spent two hours yesterday morning waiting to find out if I'd be seated.