Posted on 10/03/2011 8:45:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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.
“Last Friday, a nine-person committee brought chaos to the 2012 calendar,” said South Carolina GOP Chairman Chad Connelly. “Today, South Carolina is making things right.
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You’re welcome......
I support a constitutional amendment stating that all federal primaries must be held between April 15th and April 30th
I hate the primary process. If they can tweek it so a few northern states don’t dictate the direction of rest of the primaries, then it will be an improvement.
The window just shrunk further for Palin and Christie.
And this isn’t the end, the leap frogging will continue. I heard speculation that when all the dust clears the first primaries will be at the beginning of December, 8 weeks from now.
No offense to my FReeper friends in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Florida, but I would like a National Primary Day.
Why should only a few states decide who our nominee is? And it is all driven by the media anyways... This is how we got McCain.
Political parties are private entities, not branches of government.
But it looks like we’re doing our own version of “anarchy” here. Though I would dearly love to see Iowa and New Hampshire trumped.
You are welcome...
I too am in favor of a national primary day which seems the fair way to do this...
Freegards,
Lex a Florida Freeper
Amen Brother , I am all for that.
Would be even better if held between April 15th and April 16th.
Amen , all the same day.
Give everybody a chance.
Romney is the only person this helps.
If that's impossible, they should not be permitted more than four months before the election (in 2012, that would be July 6).
Can't Republicans figure out that the enemy has captured the "process", and that twelve-eighteen months of enemedia exposure is dangerous to our candidate?
On top of that, the results of every contested process since 1980 have been disastrous.
It's time to reconfigure the nominating process in a way that hurts, rather than helps, the enemy.
Yep, I agree this helps Romney.
I have also heard whispers about many of the states Romney would be likely to win (the states McCain won against Bush in the 2000 primary) are purposely trying to edge their way to the front to help Romney.
All of this is controlled by Party insiders who desperately want Romney, and are terrified that Perry might win.
Why do you think open voting by "declared Republicans" is a good idea?
Fairness is pretty low on the scale of what we should be trying to favor.
Any process that does not consistently nominate conservative winners is a failure.
Any process that has failed consistently since 1988 should be abolished.
In all of these states including Florida. Romney is dumping all of his money to guarantee he wins each race. Thus the media props him up as the front runner and automatically claims him as the nominee.
If all 50 states voted at once. Romney couldn't spend his way in. The voters would vote based on debate performances and ideas, as opposed to the lies spread by Romney about his liberal record which he is trying to erase from history.
No kidding. In the '08 primary, by the time voting occurred in New Mexico, it was between McCain and Paul. Woohoo! What a choice.
Yeah in addition. Iowa, New Hampshire and Florida went big to Obama in 2008. South Carolina was the only early primary state that went to McCain.
Sadly, the main issue is that the RNC is essentially DNC Lite. Until that is fixed, the process of choosing the Republican candidate is broken.
When did we start having primaries on Saturday?
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