CT May Move Up Primaries in '08

[brooklynite]

Source: WCBS

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- Connecticut's top elections official and state lawmakers want to move up next year's presidential primaries from March to February.

Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz and legislative leaders said today that a primary on February Fifth 2008 will give voters more of a say in who Democrats and Republicans pick for their presidential candidates.

Nearly two dozen states are scheduled to vote in the February primary.

Connecticut's presidential primary is now scheduled for March Fourth.

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Is anyone left holding a late primary?

[More Than A Feeling]

1. It's like something out of The Onion.

"States to move 2008 presidential primaries to 2006."

[primavera]

3. My thinking as well

This is getting to be such ridiculous one-upsmanship and where does it stop? At what point does it becomes so patently absurd that states stop trying to beat each other to the primary?

[wordpix]

6. looked at positively, maybe front-loading will help keep * boxed up

Kind of like Saddam when there were sanctions.

[iconoclastic cat]

2. IL is going to be one of the last. nt

[IA_Seth]

4. Can we let this get any more fucked up?

How exactly, does having a national primary on Feb-5th solve the problem of frontloading?

[olddad56]

5. Today the state of Taxes announced it had moved it's primary up to New Years Eve.