Friday, August 21, 2015

Why Biden Can't Overlook Iowa or New Hampshire




Vice President Joe Biden's reported focus on South Carolina as key to his potential presidential bid has early-state operatives and officials — and even some of Biden's supporters — alarmed and incredulous.

They note there's little historic precedent for a presidential candidate ignoring Iowa and New Hampshire and going on to win the nomination.

They say he wouldn't be taken seriously in the race. The strategy was so unthinkable that Iowa state Sen. Herman Quirmbach — a 2008 Biden supporter — refused to believe it.

"I don't see any precedent at all, at any time in the last 50 years, for somebody skipping Iowa and New Hampshire and still being viable," Qurmbach said in an interview.

"It just doesn't work that way. And Joe Biden knows that." 

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Source: NBC News

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