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  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.
context: This makes me happy. I've never understood Iowa's outsized importance in determining the outcome  of a race by establishing early momentum.