Dump New Hampshire.
Biden came 5th in the NH primaries. NH is so unrepresentative, the 4th whitest state, it is time to begin the process that moves them to later in the contest ; If they still insist on being the first primary, give them nothing - 2008 Florida/Michigan style.
Democrats should end Iowa and New Hampshire’s political monopoly.
THE 2020 election may seem like a recent memory — for some, it is not even over — but Politico reports that Democratic Party leaders are hotly debating how to run the 2024 presidential nominating contest, and in particular whether Iowa and New Hampshire should keep their vaunted first-in-the-nation status. They should not. But the party must be careful not to do more harm than good when shifting the primary calendar. And merely reshuffling the order would be an insufficient response to the many dysfunctions the presidential nominating process has proved to have.
Iowa’s 50-year-old privilege to hold the first presidential nominating caucuses, and New Hampshire’s 100-year-old license to conduct the first primary, have become political rituals so entrenched that these states treat them as inviolable rights. Iowa and New Hampshire each have laws requiring state parties to hold nominating contests before others do. If other states try to leapfrog them, they just move their events even further forward. These states defend their advantage by arguing that their relatively small size allows voters to get up close and personal with candidates, and that their voters have developed over the decades a sense of responsibility to thoroughly vet the options. The most successful candidates are not necessarily the ones who have the most money for bombing the airwaves with ads, but those who can explain themselves and their policies at town hall meetings.
But Iowa and New Hampshire are unrepresentative of Democratic voters writ large and of the nation as a whole, and they are not the only states in which retail politics is possible. Both are extremely White. Both, but particularly New Hampshire, have proved susceptible to the leftward pull of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) among White progressives, leaving it to more diverse states such as South Carolina to pull the party back toward where its mainstream voters are. Their perpetual first-in-the-nation status has propped up support for federal subsidies for corn ethanol and home heating oil, as aspiring presidents must promise such payoffs to their voters every four to eight years.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/democrats-should-end-iowa-and-new-hampshires-political-monopoly/2021/04/02/081e653c-9263-11eb-a74e-1f4cf89fd948_story.html
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for pretty much any type of measurement, as the race effectively ended April 8th, when Sanders dropped out, and Georgia did not vote until June 9th, a full 2 months later, long after the race was decided.
of holding the traditional first four contests, all as primaries, and all on the same day? The sheer size of SC would compensate for IA / NH white bias.
After SC, the delegate count was
Sanders 57
Biden 54
Buttigieg 24
Klobuchar 7
Warren 5
I could live with that. The SC numbers would still have given Biden momentum going forward - as would Pete's surprise showing in IA /NH. to some degree. The writing was on the wall, the mainstream (Biden, Buttigieg, Klobuchar) was ascendent. Nothing could have saved my candidate, Elizabeth Warren 
- but she did a sterling job, taking out Bloomberg.
Just a thought.
we have, especially when he is in the lion's den of the RW and they get in his face. He is an archetypal big picture thinker. That said, Biden was the right man at the right time. My huge regret (and I think that deep down his as well, given it yielded the monster Trump) was that he did not run in 2016. I would bet a shedload of dosh that he would have won. The fates intervened with the tragic death of Beau. 
