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Is there a lore reason why American elections are so convoluted? (lemm.ee)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Are they stupid?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Due to federalism - each state is different. Some have open primaries and some don't. Iowa doesn't even have a primary. They have a caucus. It's not open - each party has its own thing. It's... Haha - it's too hard for me to explain.

Explainer: How the Iowa caucuses work - YouTube

What's not explained is there's a lot of yelling in the gym to try to get people to go from one candidate's "team" to another. It's a pretty silly thing to do in the era of the internet for a nation of 340 million people. Also - Iowa and New Hampshire have very small populations and they are far from being demographically representative. They are very white states.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: