Can you just feel the panic setting in?

I'm going to get some popcorn and watch the election as the U.S. party and politics system implodes and suffers a meltdown. I said this campaign was going to be a bloodbath, but little did I know now it was going to come from the state as oppossed to the candidates themselves. Should Florida stick to it's gun and hold their primary early, the folks in Iowa may head to the polls in December. If Florida gets spanked by the DNC and their delegates get thrown out what does that says to the system? What does that say to the other states? Personally I think Florida and Michigan should call the DNC bluff. Can you imagine the Chaos? I can. Can you have a good canidate if delegates from your bigger states get throw out. Think of all that campaign cash throw down the drain!


Just read it for yourself:



Senior Democrats warn of nomation chaos

By Alex Spillius in Washington


Senior Democrats have warned of chaos in America’s system of nominating presidential candidates, as different states vie to hold their primary votes ever earlier.

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Their warnings came as the Democratic National Committee announced it would ban Florida from the primaries if it insisted on moving its poll forward to January 29.

The punishment is intended to stop primaries being held as early as December – a month before the traditional mid-January start and 11 months before the November 2008 presidential election.

Garry Shay, a committee member from California, said allowing Florida to move forward “would open the door to chaos”.

An advisor to Hillary Clinton said they system was 'goofy’ and 'out of kilter’, while Donna Brazile [ok], Al Gore’s former campaign manager, also argued for a strong penalty, saying, “I hesitate to see what happens if we show somehow some wiggle room in our process.”

Since the late 1960s the small farming state of Iowa has gone first in the process by which members of the Democratic and Republican parties (and sometimes non-members) in each of the 50 states choose their candidate for the White House.

New Hampshire has followed, with Nevada and South Carolina close behind.

Putting two small states first allowed lesser candidates to reach voters more easily, while the latter two add geographical and ethnic diversity. The choices voters make in those states however often heavily influence polling in larger states that vote later.

But with campaigning becoming more intense and more lavish in its spending, more powerful states are demanding some of the national clout, not to mention profit, which comes with an early primary, prompting complaints that campaigning is becoming never-ending.

Nearly a dozen other states, including California and New Jersey, have already moved their primaries or caucuses forward to February 5, in what is being called 'Super Duper Tuesday’.

DNC officials wanted to take the strong action against Florida to discourage Michigan and other states that are considering advancing their contests in violation of party rules, which allow only the 'early four’ to vote before February 5.

The Republicans may take similar action.

The Michigan state legislature is on the verge of approving a January 15 date and risk violating party rules. That would prompt New Hampshire to move to January 8, and Iowa to early in the New Year or even December.

Earlier this year the Republican-controlled Florida state legislature passed a law moving its primary to January 29 from February.

Democrats in the state followed suit, concerned about a lack of enthusiasm among voters if its vote was later than the Republicans’.

That prompted the party’s national committee on Saturday to threaten ignoring the state’s primary votes and to ban campaigning in the state, unless Florida Democrats moved the date back within the next 30 days.

Taken from Telegraph UK

There's nothing like convincing the world we are all nuts here. :)