On June 8, the New Hampshire House tabled CACR 9. It had passed the State Senate earlier unanimously. It is a proposed constitutional amendment saying the New Hampshire presidential primary should be the first such primary in the nation.
If it had passed the legislature, then the voters would have voted on it in November 2024. Perhaps legislators realized the amendment was toothless. Nothing in the New Hampshire Constitution can alter the dates of presidential primaries in other states.
Another bill relating to the presidential primary was tabled in the New Hampshire legislature last month. It was SB 271, and it said New Hampshire delegates to presidential conventions must be seated and have complete voting rights. This is another example of a toothless idea; the state of New Hampshire has no right to determine the rules of national political party conventions. The bill had been motivated by a fear that the Democratic Party might penalize New Hampshire delegates if the date of New Hampshire’s Democratic presidential primary in 2024 violates national party rules.
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Someone please explain to me why its important for a state to go first in a primary election for president? I don’t get it.
Huge economic advantage to have all the leading major party presidential candidates staying in the state for weeks, and media also staying in hotels and motels and eating restaurant food.
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Thanks Richard.
Technically, CACR 9 was tabled by the House. They didn’t want to actually kill it before the upcoming Primary.
It would have to be a federal amendment to be enforceable, and the likelihood of the US constitution being amended to benefit one state is zero.
They should eliminate primary and make it a caucus. That would maximize their benefit from going early.
Maybe you could pass a federal law stating than any Presidential primaries have to be held in the order that each state was admitted to the union. But, then, Delaware would go first, and NH would have to settle for 7th.
Why would there be primaries? Caucuses are much better.
I understand why New Hampshirites want to have the first primary, but they need to recognize that they can only have the first primary to the extent that the national parties and the 49 other states are willing to let NH have the first primary. Moses did not come down from Mount Sinai with a commandment from God saying, “Thou shalt have no other primaries before New Hampshire.”
But you don’t want to cross New Hampshire. A bunch of the liberlooneytoons who moved there believe in private nukes. Who knows, maybe some of them actually have them. I mean, I’ve always heard don’t mess with Texas. But honestly I’m more scared of New Hampshire.