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Posted on 08/09/2007 7:09:17 AM PDT by indcons
South Carolina's Republican Party will move its 2008 presidential primary forward to Jan. 19, sources said yesterday, a decision almost certain to spark a cascade of calendar changes that could push the start of voting to New Year's Day or even to before Christmas.
The move, set to be announced today, is likely to cause the New Hampshire primary and Iowa caucuses to be shifted at least to early January, and other states are actively angling to stake out spots earlier in the process. The maneuvering has injected a new note of uncertainty into what is already the earliest-starting presidential campaign in history, and top strategists for the candidates said it would force them to revise their carefully worked out plans.
Katon Dawson, who heads the South Carolina GOP, made the shift to retain the distinction of holding the "first in the South" presidential primary balloting. Dawson's move was sparked by the Florida legislature's decision to upstage South Carolina by moving the state's primary to Jan. 29. South Carolina had been scheduled to vote Feb. 2.
Under some scenarios, the decision could lead Iowa to hold its caucuses in mid-December, creating an unprecedented situation in which convention delegates are selected in the calendar year before a presidential election.
The move is certain to trigger action by New Hampshire Secretary of State William M. Gardner, who is compelled by state law to set the date of his state's primary at least a week before any other. That could push New Hampshire's primary, currently scheduled for Jan. 22, to Jan. 8.
In Iowa, state law requires presidential nominating caucuses to be held at least eight days before any other voting.
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I’ll be your nominee by Christmas
You can count on me
I’ll be your nominee by Christmas
If only in my dreams.
I figure in another few decades, we’ll have the primaries the week after mid-term elections.
saw c-span. Its a done deal.
BTW: c-span now has polsters reporting hillary beating Guiliani in FL and two other swing states!
Maybe I should throw my hat in the ring for 2016, or is it too late?
now we’ll have to start thinking up Christmas themed
parody songs (or filks, as the SF fans call ‘em)
Barrack the Magic Negro
Had a very shiny nose—
no, that’s not it. Ah, wish Kerry were running again so
I could reprise my tune from ‘04:
Have yourself a Kerry little Christmas
Cozy all the way
While the seat of power lies so far away
You’ll be just one more lib in the Senate
Thanks to W
You won’t live on Pennsylvania Avenue
Ketchup Heiress has lots of dough
Lots and lots of dough, to spend
It won’t buy you the White House though
For the voters know, my friend
Mondale, Gore, and also Mike Dukakis
Know just how you feel
When you’re seen, you just don’t have any appeal
So have yourself a Kerry little Christmas, now
I figure in another few decades, we’ll have the primaries the week after mid-term elections.First of all, it won't take another few decades. And second, why not the week after the presidential election? Or maybe even earlier? Maybe have a primary for the election of 2016 (for example) in the year 2011?
In fact, why not just hold all future primaries next year and get them all over with, forever?
That would be a waste of money - why not having them WITH the midterm elections.
Seriously, given the market creep of primaries, it would make sense for states like Mississippi and Louisiana which have statewide elections in 2007 to go ahead and have the primaries in November, rather than spending money on special elections a few months later in the winter.
free dixie,sw
Agree 100%.
free dixie,sw
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