What does moving up the presidential primaries do ?

In previous presidential elections New Hampshire was the first state that the primaries were held. Because of this, most presidential hopefuls did the majority of their campaigning in this state. If a canidate didn't do well in New Hampshire they would often not continue because of the cost of running campaigns. This caused a few states to "choose" who would be the ultimate presidential candidates for the November elections.

Moving up the elections would make candidates campaign in all the states. It may cause back lash, by preventing some candidates from running, based on cost. However, it will give nation the ability to actually choose from all the candidates as to who will run in the November elections.

No. There could prefer to be a regulation to reduce the starting up and the acceptable of primaries to eight and four months (respectively) in the previous the nationwide presidential elections. to maintain the impression of smaller states they ought to easily accept a decision to elect the date for primaries. The state with the bottom inhabitants could opt for first (some thing such as the NBA or NFL draft). no more effective than 2 states could have primaries on an same day. no more effective than 7 states could have primaries in a unmarried week. this can ensure that primaries take a minimum of two months.

I agree with the above writer, and would also like to comment that for my state of California, we have always been irrated that we hold 20% of the people in the country yet in the end are never a factor in the presidential primaries. This is why California has moved itself up further in the primaries...a week after New Hampshire i think, putting CA in its rightful spot as the most important state in the country.

The downside is that tiny states like New Hampshire got a lot of 1 on 1 face time with the candidates, this made them the most informed voters in the country...in a way you could rely on them to get it right....now that bigger states are moving forward candidates will have less 1 on 1 time...doing bigger rallies instead, so it will take longer to really know who they are