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Frontloading HQ: Kansas is Back in for 2012! But for How Long?

By jtputnam 199 days ago from http://frontloading.blogspot.com

For a state that has rarely been relevant in terms of the presidential nomination process, Kansas sure has haggled an awful lot over the last couple of years trying to become so for either 2008 or 2012. After the House kicked a photo ID requirement/presidential primary combination bill back into conference last week, the plan

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Frontloading HQ: What Presidential Primary Reform Might Look Like in 2012

By jtputnam 196 days ago from http://frontloading.blogspot.com

Big changes will be difficult to pull off. Small changes, especially to caucuses seem more likely. We've already seen one caucus state from 2008 discuss both switching to a primary and scheduling the contest early in the process (Kansas) in 2012 and another caucus state that was already early discuss switching to a primary (Mi

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Frontloading HQ: Let the Backloading Begin: 2012 Arkansas Primary

By jtputnam 192 days ago from http://frontloading.blogspot.com

Arkansas, however, becomes the first state to reconsider their decision to frontload the state's presidential primary for 2008. State Rep. Nathan George has already said that he will introduce legislation next year to move the newly-created, separate presidential primary election back to the late May date that coincides with t

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Frontloading HQ: Clinton in 2012: The Caucus Quandary

By jtputnam 184 days ago from http://frontloading.blogspot.com

Let's assume for a moment that Obama wins the Democratic nomination, but goes on to lose to John McCain in the general election. Let us also assume that Hillary Clinton is true to her word and campaigns vigorously and wholeheartedly for Obama in the ahead of said general election. Finally, let's assume that the rules governin

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Frontloading HQ: About Those Rules: What Obama's New Florida/Michigan Stance Means for 2012 and Beyond

By jtputnam 111 days ago from http://frontloading.blogspot.com

Obama's decision to call for a full seating of the delegates from Florida and Michigan has opened up a Pandora's box. Yes, it was clever of his campaign to come out with this now, after Hillary Clinton had been out of the spotlight for nearly two months. For delegates to go against two months of effort on behalf of Obama as t

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Frontloading HQ: Back to the Future: The February Frontloading Experiment is Over

By jtputnam 94 days ago from http://frontloading.blogspot.com

The Democratic Change Commission? Well, it is a change election, so while we're on the topic why not change the method of selecting presidential nominees in the future? If Obama and the DNC have their way, that's just what the Democrats will do. At issue? The frontloading of presidential nominating events. The proposed commis

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Frontloading HQ: And the Ohio Plan is Dead. The Democrats Will Go It Alone on 2012 Presidential Primary Reform

By jtputnam 87 days ago from http://frontloading.blogspot.com

Though tempers flared, the GOP rules committee rejected the Ohio Plan which would have completely reworked the timing of presidential primaries and caucuses for the 2012 cycle and beyond. What was left in the wake was anger, finger-pointing at the McCain campaign and accusations of behind-the-scenes meddling. I was always skept

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Frontloading HQ: If Taking Away Delegates Won't Stop Frontloading, What Will?

By jtputnam 85 days ago from http://frontloading.blogspot.com

There likely isn't a good sanction for this just because of the cyclical nature of the problem. In the post-reform era, delegates have become largely meaningless...except when it is close. And that doesn't happen often (There are exceptions, don't get me wrong, but we won't see another 2008 for a while.). Delegates do decid

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Frontloading HQ: More Thoughts on Penalties to Prevent Frontloading

By jtputnam 84 days ago from http://frontloading.blogspot.com

What is the best way to reform the presidential primary system to prevent further frontloading of those contests from cycle to cycle? Several innovative reforms have been proposed, but there are several complex issues that complicate the effort to correct this problem. This post continues the examination of several new ideas

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Frontloading HQ: Presidential Primary Reform: Still Alive with the GOP?

By jtputnam 79 days ago from http://frontloading.blogspot.com

"If you don't give up you can't be defeated." That's true in this case. I spent last week and the weekend railing against the Republican Party for once again failing to do anything regarding presidential primary reform. But the proponents of reform within the party were not yet ready to let the cause die before 2012. While

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Frontloading HQ: Frontloading Under Fire, Part II

By jtputnam 116 days ago from http://frontloading.blogspot.com

Frontloading in 2012 is very much on the agenda these days. The GOP are forced to confront the issue now -- as in, at their convention -- because they can only debate and make such rule-changing decisions from within the confines of the convention. The Ohio Plan that the Republicans are forwarding would grant Iowa and New Hamps

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Frontloading HQ: More on the Effort to Curb 2012 Frontloading

By jtputnam 92 days ago from http://frontloading.blogspot.com

On the heels of my comments the other day following Obama's and the DNC's charting of a potential course for presidential nomination reform, there were a few more interesting tidbits that emerged around a similar theme. The Washington Post ran a great story reiterating some of the issues confronting the GOP's Ohio Plan at th

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