Whatever you think of the South Dakota legislature, one thing the State clearly did right was to refuse to move our primary elections to earlier in the year. Professor Schaff and I both blogged on this, and just now I don't have the energy to go back and find the posts.
But the Democratic Party is not so sharp. This from the New Hampshire Union Leader:
IN THE latest effort to make themselves totally unelectable, national Democrats have taken another step toward having their Presidential candidate selected by voters who have never looked him in the eye, never shaken his hand, and never been exposed to more than a television soundbite of his thinking.
Maybe the Democratic National Committee’s Rules and Bylaws Committee, which voted on Saturday to go forward with a plan to surround the New Hampshire primary with several additional primaries and caucuses, eviscerating New Hampshire’s influence, is filled with Republican plants. Or, alas, maybe the Democrats really are that out of touch.
What's the problem with front loading? Here is the Union Leader's take:
The GOP candidates will first be tested in the trenches of Iowa and New Hampshire, where they will have to meet and answer questions directly from voters. They will have to spend months honing their messages in country stores, mom and pop restaurants, and town halls — not just in front of, but surrounded by randomly assembled (not hand-picked) groups of flesh-and-blood American voters.
The Democrats, by contrast, will fly in chartered planes from state to state to state and have themselves shuttled so rapidly between so many television stations, radio stations and newspaper offices that they will hardly have time to stop for a bite to eat, much less mingle with the rabble. They will have to cover six or seven states in as many days. The voters can forget about meaningfully interacting with the candidates; they will be lucky to catch a glimpse of them.
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