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 Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 8:45 am Post subject: Election 2008 |
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HUGE curve ball was thrown to the political spectrum as Flordia moves it primary up to January 29, 2008.
Florida is of course one of the 3 biggest states in the electorial college and the only one of those 3 considered annually up for grabs.
Florida is also the most expensive state to campaign in
Florida will now be behind only Iowa, Nevada, and New Hampshire and be the same day as South Carolina (blowing SCs impact out of the water)
Effectively this will end the campaigns of fringe canidates because they simply will be unable to compete fiscally.
This will be fought or penalized by both parties though...
Democratic National Committee spokeswoman Stacie Paxton said the state would lose 50 percent of its delegates and all its superdelegates — typically members of Congress. Any candidate who campaigns in Florida for a primary earlier than Feb. 5 will be ineligible for receiving any of the state's delegates, Paxton said.
Republican National Committee has warned it will strip 50 percent of Florida's delegates if the state's primary is moved.
The RNC vow to enforce the rules places its general chairman — Florida Sen. Mel Martinez — in an awkward position. Speaking to RNC state chairmen in South Carolina on Friday, Martinez promised his home state will face sanctions.
"The rules are inflexible and it doesn't matter who is running the RNC, those rules will be enforced because they are part of the rules that were crafted at the last convention and they can't be changed," Martinez said.
If this stays in place and the parties do strip delagates it could have HUGE impact on the Presidential Races.
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| Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 1:10 pm Post subject: Re: Election 2008 |
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| queen wrote: | HUGE curve ball was thrown to the political spectrum as Flordia moves it primary up to January 29, 2008.
Florida is of course one of the 3 biggest states in the electorial college and the only one of those 3 considered annually up for grabs.
Florida is also the most expensive state to campaign in
Florida will now be behind only Iowa, Nevada, and New Hampshire and be the same day as South Carolina (blowing SCs impact out of the water)
Effectively this will end the campaigns of fringe canidates because they simply will be unable to compete fiscally.
This will be fought or penalized by both parties though...
Democratic National Committee spokeswoman Stacie Paxton said the state would lose 50 percent of its delegates and all its superdelegates — typically members of Congress. Any candidate who campaigns in Florida for a primary earlier than Feb. 5 will be ineligible for receiving any of the state's delegates, Paxton said.
Republican National Committee has warned it will strip 50 percent of Florida's delegates if the state's primary is moved.
The RNC vow to enforce the rules places its general chairman — Florida Sen. Mel Martinez — in an awkward position. Speaking to RNC state chairmen in South Carolina on Friday, Martinez promised his home state will face sanctions.
"The rules are inflexible and it doesn't matter who is running the RNC, those rules will be enforced because they are part of the rules that were crafted at the last convention and they can't be changed," Martinez said.
If this stays in place and the parties do strip delagates it could have HUGE impact on the Presidential Races. |
some how I seem to recognize this post? :P
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| Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 1:18 pm Post subject: Re: Election 2008 |
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| eo11 wrote: | | queen wrote: | HUGE curve ball was thrown to the political spectrum as Flordia moves it primary up to January 29, 2008.
Florida is of course one of the 3 biggest states in the electorial college and the only one of those 3 considered annually up for grabs.
Florida is also the most expensive state to campaign in
Florida will now be behind only Iowa, Nevada, and New Hampshire and be the same day as South Carolina (blowing SCs impact out of the water)
Effectively this will end the campaigns of fringe canidates because they simply will be unable to compete fiscally.
This will be fought or penalized by both parties though...
Democratic National Committee spokeswoman Stacie Paxton said the state would lose 50 percent of its delegates and all its superdelegates — typically members of Congress. Any candidate who campaigns in Florida for a primary earlier than Feb. 5 will be ineligible for receiving any of the state's delegates, Paxton said.
Republican National Committee has warned it will strip 50 percent of Florida's delegates if the state's primary is moved.
The RNC vow to enforce the rules places its general chairman — Florida Sen. Mel Martinez — in an awkward position. Speaking to RNC state chairmen in South Carolina on Friday, Martinez promised his home state will face sanctions.
"The rules are inflexible and it doesn't matter who is running the RNC, those rules will be enforced because they are part of the rules that were crafted at the last convention and they can't be changed," Martinez said.
If this stays in place and the parties do strip delagates it could have HUGE impact on the Presidential Races. |
some how I seem to recognize this post? :P |
Yes....where did I see that before? :mrgreen: .....
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| Silver Quex wrote: | | um on TV. |
Don't have one...................must of pick it up on the streets. :P
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| Silver Quex wrote: | | um on TV. |
NO...It is one of his...I pulled it from our football site to keep you guys from becoming extremests......and to get you to LOOK at things from another direction.....
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| queen wrote: | | Silver Quex wrote: | | um on TV. |
NO...It is one of his...I pulled it from our football site to keep you guys from becoming extremests......and to get you to LOOK at things from another direction..... |
I would take it as a sign of respect EO that she thought to quote you. Funny, as much as I follow politics, I still don't see why all these states are trying to move ahead in the primary schedule. I know you have explained it to me before, but this is one thing that I will never quite understand....the electoral college makes perfect sense, but not the primary....it seems too much like Britain's general elections with the different parties swapping votes for power, but in this case states and candidates and electorates.....doesn't seem democratic.
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