Reply #170: Donna Brazile is right. [View All]

[President Kerry]

FL and MI decided to give themselves the advantage of an earlier primary. Doesn't this screw the states like Kentucky who get to have their say way at the tail end of the process? The primary system is fundamentally unfair in that some states get to exercise a lion's share of influence (IA, NH, SC, super Tuesday states), while others don't matter - and that's a separate discussion. But if every state could freely pull what FL and MI did, they'd do it in a flash. You don't do that on a whim, there's a process. Nevada got their primary advanced the right way. So in that sense, yes, treating FL and MI like every other state is an affront to the other 48 states that played by the rules. Otherwise it's an anarchy within the party.