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CentralMass

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9. These opening events set the stage for the rest of the primary.

Reply to Bradshaw3 (Original post)

Tue Feb 4, 2020, 12:31 PM

Feb 2020

Momentum, public perception, and other benefits are reaped by those who win these events. The are historically important and are often critical events that seup success or failure for the rest of the campaign. Every event in this system is critical but whatever events you teplace IA and NH with will assume the same weight.

These early events never seem to be a problem when the right candidate wins them.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided

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Iowa: Take a chill pill, everybody [View all] Bradshaw3 Feb 2020 OP

this is a glitch and so what? did the sky fall? did we lose all our savings? do we now... samnsara Feb 2020 #1

Poor planning. Poor execution. Poor testing. No training. Rush to implement. No backup plan. NurseJackie Feb 2020 #5

END CAUCUSES NOW! NurseJackie Feb 2020 #2

How 'bout "go to the end of the line, Iowa"? calimary Feb 2020 #3

You cannot blame it on Iowa, the DNC should have taken control of it Perseus Feb 2020 #7

"Go to the back! There's always one, isn't there?" NurseJackie Feb 2020 #8

Too..the bright silver lining is there is paper BACKUP.... asiliveandbreathe Feb 2020 #4

Oh, and the republican propaganda machine is going to say "they screwed up, but they had paper... Perseus Feb 2020 #10

Its not so much what the con says, it is what most of the media say/write Perseus Feb 2020 #6

These opening events set the stage for the rest of the primary. CentralMass Feb 2020 #9

You can't have a paper backup that verifies a person's vote submitted by an app. defacto7 Feb 2020 #11

I see some have not taken their chill pill Bradshaw3 Feb 2020 #12

"A good rule of thumb in life is to assume that whatever Trump says, the opposite is true...." riversedge Feb 2020 #13