In a 24-year cycle, every state would have a chance to be among the first primary states.
Why aren't primary and caucus states rotated every four years?
This would prevent candidates from "camping out" in early primary states.
The question now is, Will Republicans in primary states ahead feel the same?
But in the next group of primary states, he is a virtual stranger and will have little time to introduce himself.
In a way, the internet has become its own primary state, where a new kind of retail politics have taken shape.
His book tour, they added, will take him through early primary states.
"We think that's enough to get through these early primary states."
That's why the current absence of candidates in the early primary states may be significant.
Unlike other candidates, he has not put operatives into early primary states.