Political Big Bang Theory - New England Patriots Forums

PATRIOTS-80 · 02-28-2007, 12:36 PM

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Nineteen states or more, with half of America’s population, are moving to hold their presidential nominating primaries on Feb. 5, 2008, a mere three weeks after the Iowa caucuses and two weeks after the New Hampshire primary. In effect, we will now have a national primary and the presidential nominating season will last only three weeks from start to finish.

The effect of this gigantic sea change will be that whoever is the frontrunner in each party by the fall of 2007 will be virtually certain to win the nomination because only the frontrunner can possibly hope to amass enough money to compete in half the country at once. Nobody but the likely winner in each party will be able to compete at that level on Feb. 5.

Money will now be king. Nothing else will count very much. If you can afford to run a national campaign three weeks after the first caucus, you will win. If you can’t, you’re doomed. And the polling that designates a frontrunner now will do much to determine the nominee.

http://thehill.com/thehill/export/Th...is/022807.html

***maverick4*** · 02-28-2007, 12:44 PM

This makes special interest groups and donors even more powerful.

The rich guys who run the big corporations of this country basically choose who wins now.

Real World · 02-28-2007, 01:02 PM

This is not a good development. The question is, is there anything you can do to change it? Clearly this is up to the states to decide. Should the fed make the laws here? I don't think so. None the less, it is what it is, as BB would say, and it sucks.