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angrychair

(8,699 posts)
Wed Feb 24, 2016, 12:58 PM Feb 2016

Vote

While I now live in a very blue state (Washington) I have lived in Texas, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia. While you can make a case for Virginia and NC being purple(ish) the rest, to include Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee and Arkansas are very red states.
I feel for my Democratic Party brothers and sisters in those red states, I've lived it.
That being said, in our current reality, it is very odd to let what is mostly conservative states with mostly conservative Democrats, have such significant impact on early delegate counts and in determining momentum for the remainder of the primary race into the convention. It really should be far more mixed. I get it for Republicans, it's the current stronghold for their base.

It is not for Democrats.

It is not a ding on people living in those states. I'm not saying they shouldn't have a say, I am saying it should be more balanced at the very least. Why leave so much influence to so many conservative-leaning states, while liberal stongholds like WA, OR, CA, NY have their votes after when many consider it already over. Seems counter-intuitive.

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