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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.
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Here's a schedule I found online. You may want to bookmark it.
http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P12/events.phtml?s=c
I noticed this as well... It seems Romney is gaining a head of steam in the primary polls.. now leading in Florida, and Iowa.. The Republicans may nominate him. He looks "moderate" but in reality on economics he supported the cut, cap and balance plan and the Paul ryan medicare plan.. I think Perry may only now have a chance at the nom if Romney now scews up.. I don't see it.. Election 2012 is going to be close unfortunatley IMHO.. in fact it may not even be close if the economy either gets much better or much worse. it could go either way!! Well, I hope Obama's political team is ready to rumble.. I will continue donating and volunteering....!
9/27: Romney ahead of Perry in new poll of Florida GOP - 30-24
A near majority of Florida Republicans don’t believe that Perry’ characterization of Social Security as a “Ponzi scheme” was accurate... those between 46 and 65 broke for Romney by 13 points, and by 11 points among those over 65.
Maybe I'm dumb, but I need someone to explain to me why all the states shouldn't have their primaries on the same date. The way it is now, the later states don't really get a say until the beginning states do the weeding out.
Or am I missing something?
As a florida Republican I may only vote GOP in the primary. I will hold my nose, and vote for the GOP candidate I feel will do the least damage to the country, if Obama is defeated. I look forward to the general election when I will vote for Obama.
If the primary is held in January that may well be a cold day in Florida. It can get down to 32 degrees in Florida. I have to wonder if it wasn't planned to try to force a low turnout, boosting Rick Perry's odd's at winning the Florida primary.
This whole thing is the dumbest discussion. I think that all of the party groups in each of the later states should get together and move their primaries up to January, and then tell the RNC to "suck it, losers". They can't punish ALL of the offending states if most of them did it.
I read this section from here http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/30/new-hampshire-filing-dates_n_989194.html
"Florida may dilute the value of their primary, but we certainly won’t allow their actions to minimize the New Hampshire Primary," New Hampshire House Speaker William O’Brien told Patch.
Former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu (R) told Patch on Thursday that he is confident in Gardner’s ability to keep the Granite State’s status intact. Sununu, a former state Republican chairman and White House chief of staff, noted that Gardner has had to move the state’s primary up in past years as well.
"Iowa picks corn, Florida picks oranges, and New Hampshire picks presidents," Sununu told Patch Thursday after attending a Mitt Romney rally.
I personally thing that the final comment is rather a-hole-ish. Why shouldn't all of the people in each of the states get somewhat close to the same say in the vote? It is stupid.
Because it isn't the same vote. It's fifty contests, and each contest sends a number of delegates to the party convention who actually nominate their candidate.
You forget that by the time that later states get around to being able to have their contests, the beginning states have already weeded out who they like and don't like first. For example, by the time the contests get around to Texas, the selection is really only down to two choices. The later states don't have the same variety of candidates to choose from because the beginning states get their say first.
Latest changes:
Saturday 21 January 2012: South Carolina Primary (tentative date)
Tuesday 24 January 2012: Louisiana District Caucuses (tentative date), New Hampshire Primary (tentative date), West Virginia County Republican Conventions (tentative date)
~~Keep this up and we'll have primaries and caucuses held on Christmas or New Year's Eve.
http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P12/events.phtml?s=c
~~Keep this up and we'll have primaries and caucuses held on Christmas or New Year's Eve.
The Iowa Republican party has chosen Tuesday, Jan. 3 for its 2012 presidential caucuses, the Des Moines Register reported Friday.
New Hampshire won’t announce its primary date before Oct. 17.
You forget that by the time that later states get around to being able to have their contests, the beginning states have already weeded out who they like and don't like first.
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