CA Primary shifts to early February 5 --Part of a huge Primary Day

[Perky]

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CALIFORNIA_CLOUT?SITE=CATOR&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-03-12-04-19-54

I kind like this. It bunches the primary season early. concludes things early and allows a longer period to build up the war chest until the convention. And then a three months sprint. Later primary states have always gotten disenfranchised so this really amplifies it.

It does sort of hurt the power of the initial four (IA, NH, NV and SC) but you need to win some of those to be viable on the reconfigured Super Tuesday.

This frontloading probably hurts Clinton the most in that she may not win any of the initial four.

Thoughts?

[sutz12]

1. Hell, why don't we just hold them now?

:sarcasm: , but only a little.

The election cycle is already too long. They should push them all back into Jul/Aug and hold the 'conventions' which are no longer conventions in Sept/Oct.

The rest of the world can rebuild their entire government in six weeks. It seems to take us two years.

[Cronus Protagonist]

2. I think all primary voting should be on the same day nationwide.

It's the only fair way.

[Perky]

4. I like the notion of retail politics

but it really only workks in small states.


I would like to see weeklong voting via the internet eventually but I think we are probaly a generation away... (Older generations and the ppor have access problems which must me addreesed)

I would suggest text messaging but then you have to deal with people with more than one phone or high schoolers voting as well.

[sandnsea]

3. Money will rule

I don't understand why people don't see that this is the exact thing they say they want out of politics.

[Perky]

5. I agree

commercials are currently the medium of choice.

But just wait for internet and cell phone ads to take off....It will be far cheaper to deliver the message by other means,

[Perky]

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[WI_DEM]

7. I hate the front loading

it means that only people who raise massive amounts of money to compete in mega states will be the only ones who run for the presidency and people who aren't as well financed will get lost in the shuffle.