This is going to be a LLLOOOOONNNNNGG election

[FourScore]

Primary Season Getting Earlier
S.C. GOP's Move Could Push Votes For 2008 Into '07

By Michael D. Shear
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, August 9, 2007; Page A01

South Carolina's Republican Party will move its 2008 presidential primary forward to Jan. 19, sources said yesterday, a decision almost certain to spark a cascade of calendar changes that could push the start of voting to New Year's Day or even to before Christmas.

The move, set to be announced today, is likely to cause the New Hampshire primary and Iowa caucuses to be shifted at least to early January, and other states are actively angling to stake out spots earlier in the process. The maneuvering has injected a new note of uncertainty into what is already the earliest-starting presidential campaign in history, and top strategists for the candidates said it would force them to revise their carefully worked out plans.

Katon Dawson, who heads the South Carolina GOP, made the shift to retain the distinction of holding the "first in the South" presidential primary balloting. Dawson's move was sparked by the Florida legislature's decision to upstage South Carolina by moving the state's primary to Jan. 29. South Carolina had been scheduled to vote Feb. 2.

Under some scenarios, the decision could lead Iowa to hold its caucuses in mid-December, creating an unprecedented situation in which convention delegates are selected in the calendar year before a presidential election.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/08/AR2007080802112.html?hpid=topnews

[Mojambo]

1. It's such a pleasant time.

Can you really blame people for wanting to extend it?

:eyes:

[ellaydubya]

2. This becomes more absurd by the minute

Debating, fundraising, polling, primaries, etc. all so early- Is it because we are so dissatisfied with this gang now in control, as mentioned last night in the debates, or is it a political system out of control? For some reason, it smells of corporate America........

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

3. I am seriously considering the possibility...

Of a medically-induced coma, until about September 2008. I could use the sleep anyway.

[MiniMe]

4. It already is