A Modest Proposal for How Democrats Can Improve the 2028 Primary
Forget Iowa or South Carolina. The District of Columbia should vote first.
May 26, 20265:40 AM
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I am one of fewer than 25,000 people who share the distinction of having voted in the unsanctioned 2024 New Hampshire Democratic primary for a man whose name I had to Google before I could finish writing this sentence (former Rep. Dean Phillips). In that bitter January darkness of a Manchester elementary school parking lot, several dozen voters clustered in line beside me to get into the gym just as the polls opened.
