Responding to news that Florida is trying to move their primary to January 29th, a week before super-duper-Tuesday, Chris Bowers writes:
Florida is doing this, I guess, because they feel they don't already have enough say who becomes the next president. No state has suffered more than Florida from the indifference of presidential nominees to non-swing states. If Florida didn't have an early primary, it is highly doubtful that the presidential nominee of either party would ever spend a dime in the state, much less visit. It has been decades since Florida was the deciding state in a presidential election. This is truly a shame, because the air-tight voting systems in Florida fuel more confidence in the hearts of voters than those of any other state in the nation. While in other states, there really isn't a way to ever know who won an election, when people take office in Florida, you know that that person truly has the will of the electorate behind him or her.
High quality. As a more general point, I can't seem to open a newspaper without one or another behemoth state trying to shift their primary to 8am tomorrow morning. At some point, don't the parties have to step in, decide that the states will go in random groups of five (or something), and bring some order to this process? It's getting a bit ridiculous.
