• pewter@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Primaries are also weird because depending on what state you live in the election is often decided before you even get to vote. Imagine living in a state as big as California and having no impact on the primary.

    If the general election can be one day maybe so can the primary.

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      5 months ago

      That’s a feature, not a bug. The party leaders like having time to craft a narrative and create momentum behind their preferred candidate. It’s how Biden’s campaign managed to come back from the dead in 2020. If the primaries were all held on the same day, these pundits wouldn’t be telling us to stick with Biden, they’d be telling us Bernie is too old for a second term.

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      5 months ago

      Imagine living in a state as big as California and having no impact on the primary.

      After South Carolina has decided for you.