Florida Expected to Move Primary to January

[jaxx]

September 28, 2011

Florida Expected to Move Primary to January
Florida "is expected to move its presidential primary to the last day in January 2012, a move likely to throw the carefully arranged Republican nominating calendar into disarray and jumpstart the nominating process a month earlier than party leaders had hoped," CNN reports.

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2011/0...nuary.html

[RoyGBiv]

I got an idea. Let's just move all primaries to the day after the election.

[jaxx]

I keep waiting for one of them to be in 2011. It's just crazy.

[Born_A_Truman]

What a maze! Here's a schedule so far I found online.

[jaxx]

Thanks Pat, I bookmarked that page. Looks like they moved FL to the new date too.

[jaxx]

NV GOP moves presidential caucuses ahead of Fla.
Oct 2, 8:20 PM (ET)

RENO, Nev. (AP) - Nevada Republicans have decided to move up their presidential caucuses to stay ahead of Florida's newly scheduled Jan. 31 primary, a move that will cost the state party half of its delegates to the GOP's national convention.

Executive board members voted Saturday night in a special telephone conference meeting to hold the caucuses sometime in January instead of February, saying it was worth the price to have more influence on the nomination as an early voting state.

<..> Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina are the only states allowed to go before March 6 under Republican and Democratic party rules.

Florida's move thwarts efforts by both major political parties to delay presidential primaries and caucuses. Their aim has been to avoid a repeat of the 2008 scenario, when states jumped ahead of each other at that time in attempts to increase their influence in the process.

http://apnews.excite.com/article/2011100...FVK02.html

What a circus. Who's on first?

[jaxx]

Holy crap....another one!!

South Carolina sets primary for Jan. 21, advancing GOP primary calendar
Posted by Aaron Blake at 12:19 PM ET, 10/03/2011

South Carolina has set its primary date for Jan. 21, likely pushing up the GOP presidential race to start shortly after New Year’s or even earlier.

The Palmetto State is the first of the four states holding early contests to select its date. Now all eyes are on New Hampshire, whose decision on its primary date will determine when Iowa and Nevada will set their caucuses.

“Today, South Carolina’s Republican primary restores order,” South Carolina GOP Chairman Chad Connelly said Monday morning.

<..> Though we don’t yet have official dates from the other three early states, we do have an idea about which way things are headed. And it appears their state laws could force the contests into December, something New Hampshire has already threatened.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-..._blog.html

[RoyGBiv]

(10-03-2011 02:05 PM)jaxx Wrote:  Holy crap....another one!!

South Carolina sets primary for Jan. 21, advancing GOP primary calendar

I suppose it's wishful thinking on my part to hope that if they set enough of these that early, we'll know who the opponent will be and can stop at least this part of the circus. I am already thoroughly fed up with primary season, and supposedly it hasn't truly begun yet.

[jaxx]

This thing of states wanting to be among the first.....they all get a chance to vote. If they move into 2011 the idea of an every 4 year election farce is out there for all to see. It never ends, the campaign season becomes the silly season and halfway is where it's at. OMG