Does anyone else feel this frontloading of presidential primaries has gotten out of hand?

It is like the whole thing has turned into a peeing contest.

Soon the first primary will be at Thanksgiving.

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Yes. It's absurd. Of course it makes no more sense to let Iowa and New Hampshire pick our candidates.

It might not be such a bad ideal to put the (current) federal government on hold.

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Right "boy"

Congress has a rating of 18%

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They have been out of hand for a long time.

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yess well, they all just wanted to beat California, since we changed ours first.....damn copycats. As if some of thise tiny "weenies" mean anything by going before us, hrumph!

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I just wish they were all moving them back, month after month after month of the General Election is fun for poltiphiles like me, but it turns off a lot of "casual" voters. It also becomes quite the headache to see 500,000 30second ads, which of course is about the worst way anyone could have ever devised to let someone know about important issues.

I agree with Yoda that it would be better at this point to have them all on the same day, although there is a small bit of validity to the counterargument the little states make. This system at least makes the candidates visit a state other than the 3 or 4 large "swing states" and meet the people there.
(Of course the problem that New Hampshire and Iowa then get disproportionately more say in the process than anyone else is a valid argument.)

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In 1992 though one may have wound up Tsongas.

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