Is This Front-Loading Of The Primaries Creating A Bandwagon Effect ???

[WillyT]

Take a look at the 2nd (Iowa), 3rd (New Hampshire), and 4th (South Carolina) polling charts here:

Link: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/charts/2008_election_primaries/democratic_primaries_chart.html

These are charts that average the significant polls together. And the Iowa poll average had Edwards coming in 3rd!

Clinton still leads nationally, but state by state could change with each new primary.

:shrug:

[elleng]

1. I'm afraid so;

a broken bandwagon, I think.

[TwilightZone]

2. People like to vote for a winner.

Sometimes, that is the primary (pun not intended) motivation.

[EFerrari]

3. I think that's the idea.

We're so manipulated anymore, how surprising is that? :shrug:

/ack

[MadHound]

4. Could very well be,

However I think that the biggest reason why the primaries were front loaded was to favor the person with the biggest pocketbook, ie Hillary. However I think that this tactic backfired on her, and she's going to pay the heavy price.

[featherman]

5. That was the plan... kind of happened with Kerry

I think the expectation was it would happen for Sen Clinton

[Eurobabe]

6. Uh, hell YES!!!

The media is telling us it is all over on Tuesday, didn't you get the memo?

[Demeter]

7. The Media Is Pushing for a Premature Closure

They want the primary season over and done with so they can go back to what they do best:

NOTHING!

[WillyT]

9. Funny Thing Is, The State Parties Did This, Not The Media

No fan of the media, but I think both parties are gonna have to figure another way in the future.

:shrug:

[Demeter]

10. I am Referring to the Media Coverage and the Media Determining the Debators

The primary schedule is stupid, but the media is also pushing candidates off the stage after one straw poll in Iowa, an attempt to dictate to the voters if ever there was one.

[Didereaux]

8. Yep! vast majority make up their minds based on last minute MSM frontpages.

[tom_paine]

11. Of course it is. It also reduces voter participation in selecting candidates.

Elites of both parties want this. They want the peasants good and caged and unrepresented when it comes time for them to hire one-half of us to kill the other half.

Hence, the shutting down of The Old American Republic, and the "puzzling" complicity of our Democratic Leadership with perhaps two dozen notable exceptions and Ron Paul (whatever you think about his personal views, he sure isn't a Bushie Toady).