Democratic Primaries

They’ll say, so-and-so is already way out ahead, so it’s almost a foregone conclusion that they’ll win. It’s unfortunate, but I don’t think we can shame the media into changing their behavior.

Voters are influenced as well. It seems that the early primaries make the later primaries shift to line up (but not perfectly) with the early results. So Iowa being first gives it outsized importance. I agree it’s not the most representative state. I’d be in favor of rotating the primary order among states, but they all think they’re the most important and should be first.