Posted on 12/11/2013 8:58:49 AM PST by kobald
A handful of Republican Party officials is quietly advancing a new batch of rules aimed at streamlining a chaotic presidential nominating process that many party insiders viewed as damaging to the their campaign for the White House in 2012, multiple GOP sources told CNN.
In a series of closed-door meetings since August, handpicked members of the Republican National Committee have been meeting with party Chairman Reince Priebus in Washington to hash out details of a sweeping plan to condense the nominating calendar, severely punish primary and caucus states that upend the agreed-upon voting order and potentially move the party's national convention to earlier in the summer, with late June emerging as the ideal target date...
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Are they gonna run any candidates that don’t suck? Primary process doesn’t matter if they make it the 3rd campaign in a row with nobody that deserves my vote.
Bingo!
No "reform" should go forward without eliminating this archaic and harmful process.
Mike Huckabee actually did something right with his forum format.
Only 1 candidate on stage at a time and they were held to the topic of themselves and their own policies.
The seemingly never-ending ‘debates’ and multiple primary days all across the country is very expensive and tiring on both the candidates and the electorate.
I remember the night comedians, Leno, Letterman, etc, making fun of the long debate process of what was it 20+ debates?
Plus the George Stepinalloverus loaded questions and other liberal media tricks and mischief would be limited.............
The Iowa Caucus is just an absurd practice….and it’s nothing but a fund raiser for the Iowa parties….way outsized in importance. Meanwhile, NH is an oddball little population with a lot of cross over voters. Neither does a good job of picking a Republican winner…..tho it works great for Dems.
The first real primary of any kind of reasonable electorate is SC, which even tho a smallish state, has a turn out of more than Iowa’s weird caucus and NH’s tiny populations combined….but then it’s on to huge Florida after only one “normal” state.
Yes, that's the ticket to success!!!
Frickin MORONS lost Florida Twice with these "punishments" and now they line up behind Hillary. They might not see it that way - or they might and just don't care but that's where it seems to be headed. I will start practicing saying "president Hillary Clinton"
Personally, I'd recommend approval voting.
The candidate with the most approval of the party wins. That would tend to be the most unifying of the candidates.
Those old rules gave us Romney and McCain, how could the new rules be worse?
Put the first primary in Texas...ok, I'm biased.
And get rid of open primaries.
exactly what they are doing
Red Hampshire ALSO hosts a lot of out of state voters on Election Day...come on up some time and check out the busses and cars with Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Maine plates...the first Tuesday of November is not exactly part of tourist season.
-- Any state holding a primary or caucus during the first two weeks of March must award its delegates proportionally, rather than winner-take-all.
The measure is designed to prevent a candidate from catching fire in the early states and then riding a burst of momentum to winner-take-all victories in expensive, delegate-rich states such as Florida or Texas. The early March window would give underfunded, insurgent candidates a chance to prove their mettle.
"It will allow a grassroots candidate to stay in the race and try to raise money and score some wins," said Smack. "If they can't score wins by that time, they probably need to pack it in and try again four years later."
Not if we don’t have any running.
“That would be terrible for many reasons, including playing into establishment hands.”
How!
You can bet once again Texas will wind up having no say as to who the nominee is.
any primary process that comes up with Dole,McLame, Mitt or even another damned Bush is seriously screwed up.
you mean real horse shit like candy crowley?
Some items being discussed include:
“Midwestern Super Tuesday” after the early primary states of Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Florida
regional primary system
Convention by Mid July at the latest
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For the RNC, it’s chaotic. For GOP voters, it’s freedom of speech.
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