Joe Biden may hit another bump on his way to getting on a state’s presidential ballot, with Alabama’s top elections official asserting Tuesday that the president and vice president will miss the deadline to be certified as nominees in the state come November given the timing of the Democratic National Convention.
I’m greatly in favor of anyone pressuring NH over this. There’s no reason why Iowa and New Hampshire should get such an outsized roll in deciding who the nominees are, over and over again, every election, for a century. And the people who live in states farther in the primary calendar basically get no say. There should be a rotation of states if anything.
New Hampshire’s state law is ridiculous and unenforceable too, all it would take is another state passing their own law saying, no we go first, and suddenly there is no way both laws could be upheld at the same time, and they’re trying to hopscotch each other pushing farther and farther back in the calendar. Policies like New Hampshire’s law are why we have candidate debates over a year before the actual election! Whole situation is ridiculous.
While I share some of your concerns about the DNC, I’m not gonna shed a tear for the voters in New Hampshire and Iowa that had more say than anyone else in the country about who would be president for a century.
I’m greatly in favor of anyone pressuring NH over this.
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The only ones that can change NH state law, is the NH state government…
And they’re all Republicans. They ain’t changing the law to help Democrats.
So if you’re saying you’re ok with this, that means you’re ok with disenfranchising all the Democrats in that state for something they have zero control of.
I’m not saying that’s not what you’re doing, it seems like you think it’s perfectly fine.
But it’s incredibly undemocratic and embarrassing to see so many people with your opinion
I’m greatly in favor of anyone pressuring NH over this. There’s no reason why Iowa and New Hampshire should get such an outsized roll in deciding who the nominees are, over and over again, every election, for a century. And the people who live in states farther in the primary calendar basically get no say. There should be a rotation of states if anything.
New Hampshire’s state law is ridiculous and unenforceable too, all it would take is another state passing their own law saying, no we go first, and suddenly there is no way both laws could be upheld at the same time, and they’re trying to hopscotch each other pushing farther and farther back in the calendar. Policies like New Hampshire’s law are why we have candidate debates over a year before the actual election! Whole situation is ridiculous.
While I share some of your concerns about the DNC, I’m not gonna shed a tear for the voters in New Hampshire and Iowa that had more say than anyone else in the country about who would be president for a century.
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The only ones that can change NH state law, is the NH state government…
And they’re all Republicans. They ain’t changing the law to help Democrats.
So if you’re saying you’re ok with this, that means you’re ok with disenfranchising all the Democrats in that state for something they have zero control of.
I’m not saying that’s not what you’re doing, it seems like you think it’s perfectly fine.
But it’s incredibly undemocratic and embarrassing to see so many people with your opinion