Creepy Sleepy Show 134 - The New Hampshire Primary, and Predictions for IA and NH
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Dan and Doc discuss, analyze, and explain the New Hampshire Primary and it’s differences from the Iowa Caucus. Why is New Hampshire significant, and what why does it come first?
Additionally, we make predictions for Iowa and New Hampshire, discuss Clinton vs. Obama vs. Edwards, and ponder the strange and confusing Republican field.
From the New Hampshire Primary Wiki:
The New Hampshire primary is the first of a number of statewide political party primary elections held in the United States every four years, as part of the process of the Democratic and Republican parties choosing their candidate for the presidential elections on the subsequent November. Held in the small New England state of New Hampshire, it traditionally marks the opening of the quadrennial U.S. presidential election, although that status is threatened in 2007, as both the Republican and Democratic National Committees are moving to give more populous states a bigger influence in the presidential race. Individual states are also seeking a bigger role in the selection of party nominees on their own.
Originally held in March, its date has been moved back repeatedly to maintain New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation status in the face of ever-earlier primaries in other states. The 2008 primary will be held January 8.
Since 1952, the primary has been a major testing ground for candidates for the Republican and Democratic nominations. Candidates who do poorly usually drop out, while lesser-known, underfunded candidates who do well suddenly become contenders, gaining huge amounts of media attention and money. The media gives New Hampshire - and Iowa, the first state to hold a party caucus, usually a week before the New Hampshire primary - about half of all the attention paid to all states in the primary process, magnifying the state’s decision power. This has spurred repeated efforts by out-of-state Democrats to change the rules and by other states to try to attain the status of being the first primary in the nation.
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