Republicans moving to overhaul 2016 primary process

CNN ^ | December 11, 2013 | Peter Hamby

[kobald]

A handful of Republican Party officials is quietly advancing a new batch of rules aimed at streamlining a chaotic presidential nominating process that many party insiders viewed as damaging to the their campaign for the White House in 2012, multiple GOP sources told CNN.

In a series of closed-door meetings since August, handpicked members of the Republican National Committee have been meeting with party Chairman Reince Priebus in Washington to hash out details of a sweeping plan to condense the nominating calendar, severely punish primary and caucus states that upend the agreed-upon voting order and potentially move the party's national convention to earlier in the summer, with late June emerging as the ideal target date...

[newgeezer]

There should be a single primary day for everyone.

Then, only those candidates with huge war chest filled by corporatists and the establishment GOP crowd will have any chance from the very beginning, and needn't worry about some grassroots nobody trying to start from nowhere and building any momentum to ruin the party which rightfully belongs to the elitists.

And those goofy rednecks, hayseeds and hicks in flyover country can be properly and totally ignored!

Yes, that would be an excellent plan.

[Red Badger]

You may be right..................

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/11/14/republican-party-weighs-a-2016-shakeup-with-midwestern-primary.html