The debate's locale highlights the importance of Florida in the nominating calendar.
So they canceled their primary on March 9, which was too late to be of consequence in the nominating process.
Because Michigan, for one, has long had another agenda -- toppling Iowa and New Hampshire from their perch of primacy in the nominating process.
Matthews brought up the significance of Iowa in the nominating process.
But both parties ought to think about why they let Iowa have this kind of influence in the nominating process.
As the voting finally begins in the nominating contest between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, the issue of health care is being presented as an area of disagreement between the two candidates.
Her campaign has also been accused of making secret and improper payments to Kent Sorenson, an Iowa state senator and popular Republican conservative leader in the state, in advance of the nominating caucuses.
It was the début year for Super Tuesday, the many-state Southern primary designed to put the center of the Party back in control of the nominating process.
They are a big chunk of the Republican base and a major factor in the early nominating states of Iowa and South Carolina.
Obama reached a majority of 2,118 delegates on the night of June 3, after voters in Montana cast their ballots in the 54th nominating contest of the season.
