primaries
The Ohio Plan
Submitted by Drew Mckissick on Thu, 04/03/2008 - 23:00For those who want to know the details of how the"Ohio Plan" will work, below you'll find a copy of the proposal. The point is that it attempts torevamp the schedule for Repubilcan primaries and caucuses in 2012 and beyond - and keepsSouth Carolina's status as the first primary in the South.
Here's a copy of the actual proposed rule, which, for those not "into" rules, is kind of dry, but you get the point.
(1) No primary, caucus or convention to elect, select or allocate delegates to the national convention shall occur prior to the first week of February in the year in which a national convention is held. For the purposes of delegate election, selection or allocation through presidential primaries, cuacuses or conventions, all other states and territories shall be grouped as follows:
Follow @DrewMcKissickSmall States and Territories: Alaska, Deleware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Idaho, Maine, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia, Wyoming, American Samoa, Guam, Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and Northern Mariana Islands
Fixing the presidential primary schedule
Submitted by Drew Mckissick on Thu, 03/27/2008 - 09:32The Republican National Committee will be meeting next week in New Mexico and the most important item on our agenda will be discussing proposed rules changes that will govern the timeline for the GOP's nomination process in 2012 and beyond.
The reason we're having this debate is to address the problem of "front loading", which results from so many states getting jealous of the spotlight that usually falls on the states which have their primaries (or
caucuses) earlier in the process. As a result, many moved their dates closer to the beginning of the year...which meant the states that were near the beginning of the year moved their dates even further up. The result was a mega-primary, (that some called "Super-duper-Tuesday") with over twenty states voting on February 5th...and several other states following close behind.
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