What mistakes would those be?
***The mistake was JimRob endorsing a man he had said before that he would not endorse because he was a gun-grabbing, babykilling statist.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2920626/posts?page=1551#1551
How would you have FR act differently?
***I would focus on the primaries. That is how the GOPe gets their candidates in front while pretending to be conservative. From my home page...
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Here’s how I think primaries should be organized:
My suggestion is basically to hold the first primary in the state that has the highest percentage of GOP votes in the last election, the 2nd primary in the 2nd highest, and so on. 2 primaries a week for 25 weeks, with the last primaries being the suckup-to-the-democrats. And the democrats could easily have their primary schedule the same way, if they wanted.
This way, if a state is 60% republican, there is still incentive for them to get out the vote for 61% republican so they can bump up their state in the primary schedule.
Also: Rotate all the states (even the big ones) through an early schedule so that everyone gets access at some point to the front line.
OR
Let each state bid when they want their primary to take place. The earlier the primary, the fewer the delegates they control according to some logarithmic or steep curve formula.
18 posted on Thursday, January 31, 2008 9:55:08 AM by Kevmo (We need to get rid of the Kennedy Wing of the Republican Party. ~Duncan Hunter) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1962610/posts?page=18#18
Second thing is the order of the primaries should be determined by the percentage of republicans in the last vote. The higher the %pubbie, the sooner the state appears on the primary schedule, with a mix of big & little states and our staunchest republican states get to go FIRST. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1965735/posts?page=862#862
24 posted on Friday, September 04, 2009 8:52:29 PM by Kevmo (So America gets what America deserves - the destruction of its Constitution. ~Leo Donofrio, 6/1/09)
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Interesting concept.
I do think it might have the effect of forcing Republicans to spent a lot of time in Utah trying to make Mormons happy rather than spending a lot of time in Iowa and South Carolina trying to make evangelicals happy.
I'm not sure that would be a helpful outcome.
It isn't intended as Mormon-bashing to point out that Utah is one of the most strongly Republican states. A lot of the states which are very red or very blue are also very small, and scheduling early primaries/caucuses in those states might result in major influence by states which are not in any way reflective of the people who typically vote Republican.