rules

The 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 5^th...and several other states following close behind.