If the primaries that were held on Super Tuesday were held today,

[hedgehog]

do you think voters in California and New York would stick with Hillary or move to Obama?

[scheming daemons]

1. NY would still be Hillary, but CA would be a comfortable Obama win. n/t

[Barack_America]

2. Massachusetts would be close too.

And think of NM and AZ with the Richardson endorsement being decided.

[hedgehog]

3. Kind of makes a good argument for spreading the primaries out

instead of bunching them up early in the season.

[baldguy]

4. Tell that to FL and MI

[RaleighNCDUer]

5. Which is exactly why the DLC pushed to have the primaries

front loaded - they knew their candidate had high name recognition and that the longer it stretched on the better known her opponants would be, so the maximize her candidacy, put as many contests, including a large contests like Florida and Michigan, as early as possible.

[johnnydrama]

7. you're right

and the proof is, Hillary has no more support from Democrats than she did 16 months ago.

[davidpdx]

6. I agree

and Oregon considered moving up their primary to Feb 5th, but decided against it. Looking back I'm happy they did.