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Democrats to Revamp '08 Primary Calendar
AP ^ | August 19, 2006 | JIM KUHNHENN

Posted on 08/19/2006 7:22:05 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement

CHICAGO Aug 19, 2006 (AP)— Come 2008, Democrats don't want their presidential candidates spending the entire month of January in high boots and barn jackets.

The Democratic National Committee on Saturday was expected to add Nevada and South Carolina to the early presidential voting states, a detour into gambling glitz and Southern gentility from the traditional cold winds and snow of Iowa and New Hampshire.

The change is designed to address a nagging problem for Democrats: How to give a greater voice in selecting a presidential nominee to minorities who are among the party's most loyal supporters.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008primary; democrats; dems; dnc2008; electionpresident; liberals; pinkos; primaries; primary

1 posted on 08/19/2006 7:22:06 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Headline should Read:

"Democrats break tradition to Help Hillary"


2 posted on 08/19/2006 7:34:07 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz ("If you liked what Liberal Leadership did for Israel, you'll LOVE what it can do for America!")
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To: EQAndyBuzz

"Democrats break tradition to Help Hillary"
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It is such a pathetic, tragic joke. The libs are their own testimony to their criminality, their uselessness, their irrelevance to American, and their gross anti-American SOCIALISM and desire to trash the constitution.

Their candidate of choice says it all.


3 posted on 08/19/2006 7:42:24 AM PDT by EagleUSA (T)
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To: EQAndyBuzz
"Democrats break tradition to Help Hillary"

Why would this help Hillary? Giving a greater role to South Carolina would presumably help the Southerners who've been mentioned as possible candidates, like Edwards or Warner.

Beyond that, regardless of what happens in '08, something ought to be done about the current system. It's ridiculous that, every four years, Iowa and New Hampshire have such a disproportionate voice in picking both parties' nominees.

4 posted on 08/19/2006 8:09:43 AM PDT by Eagle Forgotten
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To: EagleUSA

Oh my, you mean these clown princes and princesses made a decision! Nah, can't be....


5 posted on 08/19/2006 8:13:38 AM PDT by tuvals (America First - Support Our Troops!)
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To: Eagle Forgotten

"Beyond that, regardless of what happens in '08, something ought to be done about the current system. It's ridiculous that, every four years, Iowa and New Hampshire have such a disproportionate voice in picking both parties' nominees."

Why? It has worked for years. You have a primary, you pick a winner and on and on and on. The RATS are blaming the voters for their own incompetence.

Want to change it? Have a national primary on April 1 for both parties. On April 2, you have your candidates.

On August 1 you have your convention and on September 1, October 1 and November 1 you have your debates.

By October 1, all voter ID's need to be validated. On Election day, everyone votes electronically and gets a paper receipt and the voter signs that his receipt was valid.

Simple.


6 posted on 08/19/2006 8:21:03 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz ("If you liked what Liberal Leadership did for Israel, you'll LOVE what it can do for America!")
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

"So, as your senator, when we fleebergast the fritzen stobber, the lower gnash will . . . . HEY!!! Pay attention to what I'm SAYING, NOT what I'm DOING!!!"


7 posted on 08/19/2006 8:46:11 AM PDT by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

There was a similar article in this morning's St. Louis rag. The last paragraph was interesting:

Several Democratic Committee members said Democratic Sens. John Kerry of Massachusetts and Evan Bayh of Indiana, both of whom are weighing presidential runs, were encouraging their supporters on the committee to vote against the rules change.

source: http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/nation/story/73083A63788616E0862571CF00035C19?OpenDocument


8 posted on 08/19/2006 10:00:38 AM PDT by rwa265
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To: rwa265

The Post-Dipatch was ridiculed the other day by O'Reilly for its liberal content.


9 posted on 08/19/2006 10:03:00 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Darn shame I missed it. Whatever BOR said was probably only half of it. The editorials are so inane and incoherent they make Maureen Dowd's blatherings seem lucid in comparison.


10 posted on 08/19/2006 10:11:34 AM PDT by rwa265
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To: rwa265

It stood out to me because he generally smacks the usual suspects of newspapers "Boston Globe, NY Times, LA Times, Wash Post, St. Pete Times.." but he added the Post-Dispatch this one time.


11 posted on 08/19/2006 10:19:14 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: EQAndyBuzz

This isn't about "the System", it's about insuring that all the appropriate Dem Machine members get to pocket the COMMISSIONS they will make off of the fund-raising and vote-buying...

The left extremists threaten the Washington Dem Status quo, and the Useful liberal idiots are about to get a lesson in power politics...


12 posted on 08/19/2006 10:37:33 AM PDT by tcrlaf (VOTE DEM! You'll Look GREAT In A Burqa!)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

The Post-Dispatch isn't on the national radar screen because it's in a smaller market. It actually makes the Washington Post look conservative and reasonable.


13 posted on 08/19/2006 10:40:10 AM PDT by rwa265
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To: tuvals

Yeah, I'm confused too...How does this decision mesh with this other decision?



http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1686503/posts

DEMS VOW SANCTIONS AGAINST CANDIDATES WHO THWART NEW CALENDER
Sat Aug 19 2006 11:16:47 ET

The Democratic National Committee moved on Saturday to penalize 2008 presidential candidates who defied a new nominating calendar designed to lessen the longtime influence of New Hampshire and Iowa -- the two states that have traditionally kicked off the nominating process.

The NEW YORK TIMES will report on Sunday: The sanctions would be directed at candidates who campaigned in any state that refused to follow a proposed calendar that the committee was preparing to approve.

Any candidate who campaigned in a state that did not abide by the dates of the new calendar would be stripped at the party convention of any delegates won in that state.


Does it mean that NV and SC can hold primaries but no candidates may campaign? Or are the NV and SC primaries already on the new calendar, and no other state may leapfrog them (at the risk of no campaigning permitted)?

I still haven't let it go that 2 Lyndon LaRouche delegates were elected in the Ohio Democratic primary a few years ago (who were not seated), and attorneys for the DNC actually argued that the Voting Rights Act did not apply to them.


14 posted on 08/19/2006 11:30:00 AM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: rwa265

I have a list of newspapers that endorsed President Bush in 2000 and 2004. One that I remember: the Chicago Tribune endorsed Bush in 2004, and have a long history of endorsing Republicans for Prez, but I also recall how one of their editors basically wrote a letter of explanation (maybe even an apology) to its readers for doing so. The Chicago Sun-Times switched from pro-Bush in 2000 to anti-Bush in 2004.


15 posted on 08/19/2006 2:11:08 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: Eagle Forgotten

Ha, ha, ha! I'm laughing! So much for the NAACP's much bally-hooed boycott of South Carolina over the Confederate flag. The Democrats REWARD South Carolina with the most influential placing to select the Presidential nominee! LOL!


16 posted on 08/19/2006 7:40:15 PM PDT by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: 2A Patriot; 2nd amendment mama; 4everontheRight; 77Jimmy; Abbeville Conservative; acf2906; ...
The plan would keep Iowa's caucuses in their leadoff position Jan. 14. Nevada would follow with its own caucuses Jan. 19. New Hampshire would retain its status as the first-in-the-nation primary, with voting Jan. 22. South Carolina would hold its primary Jan. 29.

South Carolina Ping

Add me to the list. | Remove me from the list.

17 posted on 08/20/2006 9:54:34 AM PDT by SC Swamp Fox (Join our Folding@Home team (Team# 36120) keyword: folding)
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To: SC Swamp Fox; All
the DIMocRAT party is DYING as a national party. (all they are doing is rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.)

imVho, they are NEVER going to elect a POTUS, as even people like my 92YO mother have "caught on to their game".

the RATS can NEVER win the southland & without dixie, they CANNOT win, period. end of story.

my prophesy is by 2016, they will be DEAD.

free dixie,sw

18 posted on 08/20/2006 11:49:07 AM PDT by stand watie ( Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. -----T.Jefferson)
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