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  You understand this much more than others in this thread. 
  This is a big win for corporate / right leaning dems as it reduces the probability of anyone truly left from gaining momentum early on. The media will be able to throw even more weight behind corporate dems with these early results and squash anyone who is running on a Bernie like platform.
  If you support medicare for all, free early childcare, etc. then you need to understand how significant this change is and how much it hurts the ideas you support!
context: This makes me happy. I've never understood Iowa's outsized importance in determining the outcome  of a race by establishing early momentum. >
  
  Seems odd that an incredibly red state will now have outsized importance instead. South Carolina hasn’t gone blue in nearly 50 years.
  They should’ve picked a democratic stronghold like California where a large representative sample of their voters would have first say. It makes no sense to give priority to small constituencies in red states because it’ll just skew the results to be more right wing. There is no need for us to operate our primaries with a disproportionally weighted metric unless the party leadership/major donors are scared of the voters pushing them to the left.