How do some voters decide?
"At least this time I want to vote for a candidate who will win the primary!". People like to vote for the winning horse.
"I will probably decide on the last day". Sigh. I guess this is why we have only about a third of the voters who have absolutely made up on their mind.
Post-Christmas everyone is in Iowa (Edwards is spending a couple of days in New Hampshire before heading to Iowa). After the January 3 Iowa caucus they are all going to descend on New Hampshire ....... This election there is more emphasis on Iowa than on New Hampshire, because the race is so fluid still - no clear front-runner really, so Iowa is up for grabs, and the winner of Iowa might get tremendous momentum (some people decide on the last day, and some like to vote for a winner .....)
The Edwards campaign MUST win in Iowa. As my fellow Nashua Peace group member said, "if Edwards wins Iowa, we will deliver him New Hampshire!".
The New Hampshire Edwards campaign team is focusing on New Hampshire - we are not trying to make calls in Iowa. There is so little time between the two (5 days), and every day counts.
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Picking the candidate whom most people think (in a state-wise weighted sense) is best to run the country:- If this is the objective of an election, I think that the outcome of the voting in any state, be it the primaries or the election, shouldn't be disclosed until voting everywhere is done. The media, which wants to remain 'on top of the story', I believe, does a disservice to the voting process by publishing exit-poll results before voting gets done everywhere.
I completely agree. I think exit poll results by the media indeed do a disservice.
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