MarkD
Junior Chimp
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« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2016, 08:40:19 PM » |
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« Edited: December 02, 2016, 11:02:51 PM by MarkD »
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Or, how about this? No state holds a presidential primary or caucus before April 1. 1. Only the states with 3 or 4 electoral college votes hold them in April, on whichever dates the states want. (AK, DE, DC, HI, ID, ME, MT, NH, ND, RI, SD, VT, WY.) 2. The states with 5 to 11 electoral college votes hold them in May, on whichever dates the states want. (AL, AZ, AR, CO, CT, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, MD, MA, MN, MS, MO, NB, NV, NM, OK, OR, SC, TN, UT, WI, WV.) 3. All of the rest hold them in June, on whichever dates the states want. (CA, FL, GA, IL, MI, NJ, NY, NC, OH, PA, TX, VA, WA.) (Of course, once every ten years, when the seats in the House are reapportioned, a state could change from one category to another, thus requiring that state to change which month it holds its presidential primary or caucus. West Virginia, for example, is likely going to lose one of its three seats in the House after the 2020 census, thus bringing it from #2 to #1 -- from May to April.)
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