“I don’t think the primaries were hijacked. Instead the party was so splintered that the largest small group set the pace.”
The RNC wants a liberal nominee, why do you think they have the earliest primaries in the states with either open primaries or the liberal Rockefeller type repubs? Why don’t we have the first primaries in Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and other conservative states? Because the GOP dosen’t want a conservative to get early traction.
Utter Nonsense.
It’s the state themselves that set primary dates. Not the RNC. The RNC did try to hold back the flood of early primaries, but Michigan and Florida went early anyway. So much for the “control” of the RNC.
As for McCain, for media-hating conservatives the denizens of this site sure take the statements of the MSM as gospel.
John McCain has about 100 delegates. Over 1000 are needed to win. So the nomination will be decided by voters in the next 44 states.
Super Tuesday is not going to end the election. Therefore voters in states that come after Super Tuesday will have a very large role in picking the Republican nominee.
The facts are that McCain is doing better in lots of states. He’s doing better in the Northeast - in N.J., New York and Connecticut. And Huckabee is doing well in the Bible belt: he’s a little ahead in Missouri. Arkansas is his home state, but also doing well in Georgia.
We’ve got a tight 3 way race. Whoever wins it is likely that 2/3 of Republicans won’t have supported him. That’s the nature of 3 way races.
This is actually going to be one of the MOST INCLUSIVE GOP PRIMARY SEASONS ON RECORD.
By contrast the 2000 season was pretty much over after South Carolina. This may well go past Super Tuesday! (And even if it only gets to Super Tuesday that’s over 1/2 the states have had their say before an obvious delegate leader emerged.