Time to do away with the Iowa Caucus

[LetMyPeopleVote]

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[Indykatie]

1. It's Long Been Time to End the Iowa Caucus For a Few Reasons.

[tritsofme]

2. Caucuses should be banned as a method of selecting delegates in general.

Every Democratic voter deserves a secret ballot.

But I definitely agree, getting rid of Iowa’s first in the nation status is a no brainer.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. I was on the Obama voter protection team for the last Texas two step

Texas had both a primary and a caucus. Hillary Clinton won the primary contest but President Obama got more delegates due to the caucus portion of the Texas two step. There are a ton of games that be played in caucuses to skew the results

[central scrutinizer]

4. And New Hampshire

Two tiny, mostly white and rural states should not carry so much weight.

[OMGWTF]

17. Hell, there are more people in Los Angeles county than there in something like nine red states.

That's 2 California senators vs. 18 Rethuglican senators who mostly represent dirt.

[Victor_c3]

20. Los Angeles county has more people living in it than the bottom 40 states n/t

[Sneederbunk]

5. Time for the DNC to bail.

[Cha]

6. Really.. I feel bad for the

Dems in Iowa but come on.. they're Not representative of America even before this happened.

And caucuses are Not Democratic.. a lot of states have done away with thm.

Not Tom Harkin's Iowa any more.

[UTUSN]

7. K&R for, totally yeSsssss!

[MontanaMama]

8. Kick!

WAY past time. Iowa does not represent average Americans.

[dalton99a]

9. Kick

[orleans]

10. what if they held a caucus and no democrat came?

(my question partially based on the following movie title)

[iemanja]

11. Well past time.

[Warpy]

12. I just don't want to see any more Ivy League lawyers try to look dignified

while eating a corn dog. It's not that I want to abandon Iowa Dems, I've known and liked quite a few of them, it's just the over the top cornball kitsch that isn't fooling anybody.

Enough, already!

Democrats stop doing that shit and maybe they won't come across as such phonies to people in ag states.

[Sogo]

13. I'm in Iowa.

I’m no fan of caucuses. It’s a quaint, pre-20th century practice.
And if the Dems want to start elsewhere, so be it.

But just remember, Iowa launched Barrack Obama’s bid for the WH….

[AllaN01Bear]

14. i could never figure out what good they do and how leagely binding these things are.

[SoCalDavidS]

15. I've Been Saying This For Awhile

I'm not holding my breath that the Party will have the courage to change anything.

[Tetrachloride]

16. Ranked choice looks good. But stop treating red states as trash

Get out to the countryside.

They say land doesn’t vote. Let me tell you it does. Climate change.

[Tomconroy]

18. I shouldn't rely on my memory but I don't think the winner of

The Iowa caucus usually ends up being the nominee.

[former9thward]

22. You should not rely on your memory.

Since 1980 the winner of the caucus has been the Democratic nominee 8 times, not the nominee 3 times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa_caucuses

[LetMyPeopleVote]

19. Democrats' next big fight: Which state goes first in the 2024 presidential primary

Neither Iowa nor New Hampshire reflect the demographics of the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party was fortunate that President Biden was able to hold on until South Carolina stepped in and settled the primary process.

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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/democrats-big-fight-state-goes-first-2024-presidential-primary-rcna57602?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_lw

With the midterm elections barely in the rearview mirror, the competition is heating up among states trying to move up in the presidential primary lineup. And states that delivered for Democrats are making the case that they should be rewarded.

Michigan Democrats — led by Rep. Debbie Dingell — feel well positioned to join the coveted ranks of the early states, after they made huge gains in the Nov. 8 election. With Iowa facing possible eviction from the early states, many expect Democrats to elevate a Midwest state.

Democrats now have full control of the Statehouse in Lansing, which would allow them to easily change state laws to support a new date for the 2024 primary.

“It does change the calculus,” a Democrat with knowledge of the discussions among national party leaders who requested anonymity to speak freely said after Michigan Democrats claimed a trifecta in the governor’s office and the two legislative chambers. “Michigan jumps over Minnesota, it’s just that simple. Minnesota was the fallback. Michigan is a key state.” .....

Unspoken in her letter is that many expect Iowa, which is viewed as too white and too red, to lose its coveted first-in-the-nation spot. If so, there will likely be a desire to replace it with a Midwest state to complement the other three early states, which are currently New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

21. One could argue that to win presidential races in the electoral college that Democrats

need to win races in some places that may not "look like our party."