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

By jtputnam 94 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: On GOP Conventions and VP Selections

By jtputnam 98 days ago from http://frontloading.blogspot.com

The GOP convention is already under attack, and not just from Democrats. Tropical Storm/Hurricane Gustav is heading into the Gulf of Mexico and forecasts have it making landfall sometime early next week -- during the Republican's convention -- in the New Orleans area. Now, I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure remembering Hu

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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: Why Attack the Community Organizer?

By jtputnam 91 days ago from http://frontloading.blogspot.com

Why go after Obama on his experience as a community organizer? Why go against what, on its face, is your best interest? Yes, it fires up the Republican partisans, but it also fired Democrats up as well. But the question is, "How did it play among the independents and undecideds?" Here's where we start to answer the why of th

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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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