Column: Every state wants to vote first for president. But does it really matter?

[DonViejo]

Team Las Vegas News 2 hours ago

Every four years, there is a fight from one side of the country to the next as partisans scuffle in a bid for power and political preeminence.

It’s not the race for president. It’s the battle to decide which states have the greatest sway in the race for president.

For decades, voters in Iowa and New Hampshire have taken the first cut in the nominating contests, leaving the rest of the country to choose among a field winnowed by the candidate steeplechase through Midwestern farmland and Northeastern granite.

Few outside the two leadoff states are ever happy. California alone shuffled its presidential primary six times in 30 years in a vain attempt to enhance its influence.

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[Budi]

1. I remember reading last primary that IOWA will never give up it's 1 State position because..

..because of the enormous money haul that comes with it.

Appears neither Iowa nor NH made scant difference in influence in 2020 & actually the influence was more evident as the Primary moved into the Southern States than the old traditional Primary pattern..

Iowa makes an enormous profit from its 1st State status & other than that they mentioned no other reason to keep the lucrative position.

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