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Title: South Carolina to hold primary on January 21 Post by: Coach Hank Crisp on October 04, 2011, 08:07:15 AM http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/03/south-carolina-to-hold-primary-on-january-21/
Quote Washington (CNN) - South Carolina’s Republican presidential primary will be held on Jan. 21 of next year, two GOP sources tell CNN. South Carolina Republican Party Chairman Chad Connelly will formally announce the date later this morning. The move is designed to put space between South Carolina and Florida, which bucked national Republican Party rules last week and decided to hold their primary on Jan. 31. The updated calendar is likely to push the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary even earlier into January as they seek to protect their role as the two leadoff contests in the presidential nominating process. Title: Re: South Carolina to hold primary on January 21 Post by: cbbama99 on October 04, 2011, 10:37:22 AM Someone smarter than me explain this whole idea of moving your state's primary up as far as possible. I assume that it is to insure that your primary has more meaning and therefore more attractive to candidates?
Title: Re: South Carolina to hold primary on January 21 Post by: Coach Hank Crisp on October 04, 2011, 10:52:23 AM All this is leading up to is having one national primary day election held before the general election in Nov.
Which may or may not be good. Title: Re: South Carolina to hold primary on January 21 Post by: SUPERCOACH on October 04, 2011, 11:02:52 AM All this is leading up to is having one national primary day election held before the general election in Nov. Which may or may not be good. I think it is bad because it requires a lot more money to campaign across the whole country at the same time. We need to be going in the other direction. There are a lot of great candidates that can't possibly win because they don't have any corporate cronies backing them as it is. Doing a few states at a time lowers the bar and allows people to making a good showing in some early states to build some momentum and increase their fundraising so they can compete in the other states. I don't think it is right that the same states always go first though. In my opinion, states that want to go early should apply and then they rotate through them. I suppose some states are perfectly happy not going first, so they just wouldn't apply. Title: Re: South Carolina to hold primary on January 21 Post by: Coach Hank Crisp on October 04, 2011, 11:22:11 AM All this is leading up to is having one national primary day election held before the general election in Nov. Which may or may not be good. I think it is bad because it requires a lot more money to campaign across the whole country at the same time. We need to be going in the other direction. There are a lot of great candidates that can't possibly win because they don't have any corporate cronies backing them as it is. Doing a few states at a time lowers the bar and allows people to making a good showing in some early states to build some momentum and increase their fundraising so they can compete in the other states. I don't think it is right that the same states always go first though. In my opinion, states that want to go early should apply and then they rotate through them. I suppose some states are perfectly happy not going first, so they just wouldn't apply. Good points SC. It has only been since 1979, that Iowa has been going first. Only fair to rotate primarys among states. |