The Democratic National Committee announced that it is pitching the traditional primary schedule that puts Iowa as the first caucus and New Hampshire as the first primary, a schedule that’s been in place 50 years, and it will develop a new system for ordering state primaries, NPR reports.
Critics of the current system note that the first two states on the docket are not representative of the Democratic voter profile and are given too much influence in the direction of the nomination. Supporters don’t say much but assert the early schedule are great for the economies of both states.
The DNC will have a “beauty pageant” for the states, in which states can lobby as to why the state should be included in an early group of primaries preceding “Super Tuesday.”