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ecstatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 10:16 AM Original message |
This is ridiculous, we need to stop the unrepresentative state of Iowa from having the first say |
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beberocks (219 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 10:22 AM Response to Original message |
1. I couldn't agree more! n/t |
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frogcycle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 10:22 AM Response to Original message |
2. and just who the hell is "we" |
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ecstatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 10:32 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Yep, amend it. Other states deserve a say too |
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frogcycle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 10:52 AM Response to Reply #4 |
9. fat chance |
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1monster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 11:22 AM Response to Reply #9 |
16. John Adams was a Federalist, but I'm not sure that it was an acknowledged |
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frogcycle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 12:04 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. here's a good history |
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1monster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 05:37 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. Thanks! It's amazing how much of this stuff I knew, but had forgotten... |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 10:57 AM Response to Reply #4 |
10. Rotate the schedule. That is a good idea. |
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1monster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 11:10 AM Response to Reply #4 |
14. I wish! But that won't happen. |
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superkia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 09:57 PM Response to Reply #4 |
34. If our votes arent counted, it doesn't matter who they bring. |
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Truth2Tell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-27-07 12:02 AM Response to Reply #4 |
52. Right |
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HereSince1628 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 10:29 AM Response to Original message |
3. We've also got to stop listing things in alphabetical order. |
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Norrin Radd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 10:58 AM Response to Reply #3 |
11. On those form fields, just type the first letter of the state you want to choose. |
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HereSince1628 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 12:02 PM Response to Reply #11 |
17. They don't always let you choose, and even DU uses the dogmatic |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-27-07 12:09 AM Response to Reply #3 |
55. Order of admission to the union (in the case of the South, re-admission) |
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msongs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 10:33 AM Response to Original message |
5. there are lies, damn lies, and then there are statistics (Twain)... |
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HereSince1628 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 10:38 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. "Iowar?" I thought that extra 'Arrr' was the birth right of the people of "Ohigher" |
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ecstatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 10:39 AM Response to Reply #5 |
8. Regulating voting based on race... |
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napi21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 10:34 AM Response to Original message |
6. I think some are making way too big a deal out of who's first! |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-27-07 12:26 AM Response to Reply #6 |
59. yes, after all, it's also important |
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MethuenProgressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 10:58 AM Response to Original message |
12. Look at the data for New Hampshire... |
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ecstatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 09:29 PM Response to Reply #12 |
33. LOL. Wow I didn't catch that, but you're right nt |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 11:01 AM Response to Original message |
13. Iowa doesn't look like America at all. It's like a foreign land, as foreign |
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cherokeeprogressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 11:41 PM Response to Reply #13 |
48. Would you look an Iowan in the face and tell them that they don't look like YOU? |
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KingFlorez (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 11:15 AM Response to Original message |
15. And your point is? |
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RB TexLa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 12:20 PM Response to Original message |
19. And Manchester, NH (109,691) and Desmoines, IA (193,886) really give urbanites a voice early in the |
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ProudToBeBlueInRhody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 05:44 PM Response to Original message |
21. Except it doesn't mean shit |
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NoPasaran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 05:45 PM Response to Original message |
22. I agree |
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NuttyFluffers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 06:35 PM Response to Original message |
23. of course i agree. primary, elections, and everything should be done in 1 month |
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charlie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 06:45 PM Response to Original message |
24. Well, if nothing else |
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cui bono (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 07:08 PM Response to Original message |
25. Let's just keep it this time, since Edwards is beating the DLC Dems. eom. |
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ThomWV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 07:11 PM Response to Original message |
26. Iowa doesn't pick shit. You let Florida or California go first and you alienate half the country |
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undeterred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 07:12 PM Response to Original message |
27. It should be WISCONSIN. We're really progressive and we'd pick FEINGOLD! |
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mudesi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 07:27 PM Response to Original message |
28. Perhaps if people didn't allow the media to pick candidates for them... |
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Critters2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 10:30 PM Response to Reply #28 |
39. Exactly. Why do people LET Iowa make the decision for them? nt |
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Hissyspit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 07:33 PM Response to Original message |
29. The electoral vote initiative in California is a bigger concern right now. n/t |
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many a good man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 07:48 PM Response to Original message |
30. But what will be lost? |
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moondust (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 07:53 PM Response to Original message |
31. FYI. |
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ecstatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 09:28 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. I'm not |
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Hardrada (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 10:16 PM Response to Original message |
35. Boo effing hoo. |
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RB TexLa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 10:21 PM Response to Reply #35 |
36. Can't you ask intelligent questions of the candidates in May? |
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Hardrada (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 10:23 PM Response to Reply #36 |
37. Who's listening by then? |
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RB TexLa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 10:25 PM Response to Reply #37 |
38. So what is it about the people in Florida or Louisiana or New Mexico that makes you think |
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Hardrada (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 10:33 PM Response to Reply #38 |
41. Do you think I really believe that? |
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RB TexLa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 10:39 PM Response to Reply #41 |
43. You had no problem giving your thoughts of voters in NYC, what about voters in East Carroll Parish? |
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Hardrada (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-27-07 12:04 AM Response to Reply #43 |
53. That was just hyperbole. Of course all should have an equal |
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ecstatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 10:33 PM Response to Reply #35 |
40. I met an Iowan yesterday... lovely young lady |
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losthills (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 10:35 PM Response to Original message |
42. It's obvious to any thinking person |
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mondo joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 11:16 PM Response to Original message |
44. Why does the Iowa primary "decide the Presidential nominee"? |
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ecstatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 11:44 PM Response to Reply #44 |
49. Since 2000, our nominee has been whoever did the best in those states |
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mondo joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-27-07 12:01 AM Response to Reply #49 |
51. If other voters decide to vote based on those states, that's their own doing. |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 11:19 PM Response to Original message |
45. Read this. Why all the sudden fear of Iowa and NH? |
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DJKDJKDJK (101 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 11:20 PM Response to Original message |
46. They disenfranchised all the university students by moving up their vote |
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amandabeech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 11:36 PM Response to Original message |
47. Iowa is a swing state. It may also give us a clue as to which candidates |
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Neshanic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 11:54 PM Response to Original message |
50. When I watch CSpan and the Iowa shows, the crowd is lily white, I agree. It's time to stop the |
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Hardrada (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-27-07 12:07 AM Response to Reply #50 |
54. Well, THAT's a bit of reverse bigotry. Skin color |
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ecstatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-27-07 12:20 AM Response to Reply #54 |
56. Yeah, that's it.... reverse bigotry |
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ComerPerro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-27-07 12:22 AM Response to Original message |
57. I've never voted in a Presidential Primary, and I doubt I ever will |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-27-07 12:24 AM Response to Original message |
58. Why all the attacks on Iowa and NH suddenly? |
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moondust (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-27-07 12:29 AM Response to Reply #58 |
60. Me first, daddy, or I'm not playing. |
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ecstatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-27-07 12:31 AM Response to Reply #58 |
61. Panic because we don't want a repeat of 2004 |
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Critters2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-27-07 12:34 AM Response to Reply #61 |
62. Oh, please. |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-27-07 12:39 AM Response to Reply #61 |
63. But why now? For 08 the schedule is made. |
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