{"id":45688,"date":"2016-02-16T18:43:46","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T18:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45688"},"modified":"2016-02-16T18:43:46","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T18:43:46","slug":"let-ohio-vote-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45688","title":{"rendered":"Let Ohio Vote First"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let Ohio Vote First<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2016-02-16<\/p>\n

Emma Roller<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

We, as voters and election-obsessed bystanders, made it past the first two contests in this eons-long presidential primary, but seven candidates weren\u2019t so lucky.<\/p>\n

The winnowed-down field has now moved on to the warmer vote-seeking climes of Nevada<\/a> and South Carolina<\/a>. Before moving on too, I\u2019d like to consider what this election has now proven: Iowa and New Hampshire\u2019s<\/a> first-in-the-nation status is not only obsolete, it\u2019s bad for our democratic process.<\/p>\n

Ask people in Iowa<\/a> or New Hampshire to justify their lock on early voting, and you hear this: \u201cIt\u2019s cheap to campaign here.\u201d \u201cWe take this job seriously.<\/a>\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s part of our political heritage.<\/a>\u201d It can turn into a sort of Zen koan<\/a>: We matter because we\u2019re first, and we\u2019re first because we matter. Inconveniently for them, none of these justifications are good enough.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why, to help save our democracy, I would like to autocratically declare Ohio<\/a> as the new first-in-the-nation primary state starting in 2020. It might not be a perfect idea, but it would be a lot better than our system now.<\/p>\n

The main problem with Iowa and New Hampshire is a demographic one. Put simply, they are too white. Both states\u2019 populations are roughly 90 percent white<\/a>, while the United States population as a whole is 62 percent white<\/a>. The United States is projected to become a minority-white country in roughly 30 years<\/a>. This is where Ohio comes in<\/a>…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let Ohio Vote First The New York Times 2016-02-16 Emma Roller We, as voters and election-obsessed bystanders, made it past the first two contests in this eons-long presidential primary, but seven candidates weren\u2019t so lucky. The winnowed-down field has now moved on to the warmer vote-seeking climes of Nevada and South Carolina. Before moving on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,8,26,20],"tags":[23010,5455,5755,2640,260,2327],"class_list":["post-45688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-emma-roller","tag-iowa","tag-new-hampshire","tag-new-york-times","tag-ohio","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45689,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45688\/revisions\/45689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}