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Showing Original Post only (View all)I'm sick of California and the West Coast going damn near LAST in having a say in the process [View all]
in the primaries!
This is so wrong. All the liberals and progressives are out here in the West (yes, I live out here as well ) And we deserve a more important place to decide the candidate!
California, Oregon and Washington should all move up their primaries to damn near Iowa. If not all three, then at the very LEAST California. It should go Iowa is first, then California!
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I'm sick of California and the West Coast going damn near LAST in having a say in the process [View all]
One Black Sheep
Jun 2016
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Because liberals and progressives are an important part of the Democratic base
One Black Sheep
Jun 2016
#9
Because putting an enormous state second would help the lesser known candidate?
mythology
Jun 2016
#10
You realize that if CA had gone first, instead of Iowa, Bernie would be toast much earlier...
Sancho
Jun 2016
#23
Maybe California should divide into multiple regional primaries on different dates
HereSince1628
Jun 2016
#29
50 million people on the west coast are ignored, which is why the beltway still thinks
Warren DeMontague
Jun 2016
#33