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GOP to Consider Major Changes in Primary Calendar
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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem Aug 24, 2008 05:34pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Friday, August 22, 2008 11:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By Michael D. Shear
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, August 22, 2008; Page A05
SEDONA, Ariz., Aug. 21 -- Republicans are set to consider a complete rewrite of their political calendar for the 2012 presidential primaries as they gather in Minnesota to officially nominate Sen. John McCain after a tumultuous primary season.
If approved by the delegates to the Republican convention, the new GOP calendar will pack many state primaries into elections on three successive Tuesdays late in the political calendar. The groupings of primaries would rotate every four years so every state would have a chance to go early in the process.
Exceptions would be made for a few states -- including Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Nevada and some small states that often get overlooked in the process. But under the proposed GOP rules, most would be locked into specific dates, a change from the freewheeling 2008 calendar, in which many states raced to the front of the pack, pushing voting earlier than ever before.
"In effect we had a national primary this year," said Robert T. Bennett, the chairman of the Ohio Republican Party and a chief backer of the changes. "If we don't make a change, you will have a total of between 36 to 38 states that will be voting the first Tuesday in February in 2012. By spreading out the primary process into some orderly process benefits the system." |
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