Supposedly, Iowa Republicans didn’t realized they’d picked a federal holiday as the start date for voting in the 2024 nomination contest.
, which led New Hampshire’s secretary of state to move its primary to January 23. Iowa’s decision maintains the traditional eight-day gap between Iowa and New Hampshire. South Carolina Republicans will round out the “early states” with a. Then other states are free to hold primaries or caucuses beginning in March.
So we are once again virtually guaranteed a snowy-evening launching point for the 2024 presidential calendar. Iowa Republicans have a significantly simpler caucus process than the opposition; Democrats’ convoluted system of affinity groups, delegate-equivalents, and multiple votes, contributing to the DNC’s decision to take away the state’s first-in-the-nation status and ban presidential caucuses altogether.
Meanwhile, Iowa Democrats will likely have caucus meetings on January 15. But in deference to the DNC’s wishes, they are not inclined to complete or announce any votes on presidential preferences or the allocation of any delegates on the traditional caucus night. It appears they will have a separate vote-by-mail process for their real decisions, which will be announced when the initial phases of the presidential-nominating contest are safely past.
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