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Frontloading HQ: Now It Was the Calendar that Brought Clinton Down?

By jtputnam 181 days ago from http://frontloading.blogspot.com

So now it was the calendar that knocked Clinton out in the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination race? State governments and state parties were deciding where to position their primaries and caucuses for 2008 during the time between March of 2005, when Arkansas became the first state to move and December of 2007, when Michiga

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Frontloading HQ: It's Never as Easy as Taking Away Half the Delegates

By jtputnam 93 days ago from http://frontloading.blogspot.com

Yesterday, I discussed the apparent difference between the Democratic and Republican parties on penalizing states violating the timing of delegate selection events. The Democrats stripped Florida and Michigan of all their delegates before returning half of them and then, just prior to the convention, restoring complete voting r

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

By jtputnam 105 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 98 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 97 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 96 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: More on the Effort to Curb 2012 Frontloading

By jtputnam 104 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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Frontloading HQ: From Wyoming: An Answer to the "Will the GOP Frontloading Sanctions Have Teeth" Question

By jtputnam 95 days ago from http://frontloading.blogspot.com

This week, as convention season has kicked off, we've cast an eye on the various sanction regimes that could be employed to deal with the frontloading of presidential primaries and caucuses in the future. Along the way I've done my fair share of mocking the current hollow sanctions. One question about 2008 remained though: Wo

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

By jtputnam 91 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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