Checking the list of college spring breaks which take place largely in March, it's a huge problem for Bernie. I total 5.8 million, and guessing a 20% overlap, that's 1.2million potential youth votes knocked out of most contests (since absentee vote isn't often allowed in primaries, caucuses and for first time voters.)

http://www.tripsmarter.com/panama-city-beach/events/spring-break-college...

Worse for him, campuses are often filled with more liberal professors, recent grads and supporting professionals, many of whom will have breaks at the same time - other higher pwrcentage Sanders voters.

For the 7 contests that take place on a Saturday or Sunday, they have twice the chance of getting whacked by a 9-day break bookended by 2 weekends (Wyoming probably misses spring break season completely).

While I'm kinda happy to have my favorite have an advantage, I'd still prefer we had a balanced fair election, without voters disenfranchised. And it's a bad beginning to building young voters' faith and participation in the system.

Why exactly is it taking us so long to get to 1-person, 1-vote elections using pre-voting and mail-in/secure internet-voting.

Shouldn't take a college grad to figure it out.

PS - was also wondering why early voting is more in the maligned South - it was an attempt to bring out the mythical moderate voter, which didn't even happen the first time - Gore and Jackson split the southern vote so Dukakis from Mass took the nomination. The best laid plans of Donkeys and Men... If only Debbie Wasserman Schultz had done *that* one we'd still be hearing about it.