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CaseyJones
11-14-2013, 05:39 PM
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/11/14/republican-party-weighs-a-2016-shakeup-with-midwestern-primary.html



The national Republican Party is considering a number of major changes to its presidential nominating process to avoid a repeat of the debacles of 2012, according to several party officials.

Most significantly, the party is considering holding a “Midwestern primary” featuring Great Lakes states such as Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin that would come immediately after the votes in the traditional early primary states. Also being weighed and thought likely to be approved when the Republican National Committee meets in early 2014 is a plan to shorten the primary season considerably by holding the party’s convention in July, almost as soon as the last primary ballots are cast.

The move toward a “Midwestern Super Tuesday” after the early primary states of Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Florida appears aimed in part at wresting control of the nominating process from social conservatives in the South in an effort to produce a nominee more likely to carry the election in November. Nearly all the “Rust Belt” states have fallen into Democratic hands in recent elections, and GOP officials believe that showering them with more resources throughout the primary process—and ensuring that an eventual nominee is broadly popular there—could flip the Midwest into the Republican column in November.

“The idea here is to try to recapture an area of the country that Republicans have simply not been able to carry,” said one GOP insider familiar with the plans.

Plus, the Midwestern states are relatively expensive places to mount a campaign, and bunching them together on one day would likely cost candidates less, as they could focus all their resources on one section of the country for an extended period of time, as opposed to campaigning in Michigan one week, Ohio a few weeks later, and Wisconsin a month after that.

CPUd
11-14-2013, 05:45 PM
Those were all primary states, and I think mostly winner-take-all. Would be around 300 delegates. Winning that plus the existing Super Tuesday would cause most of the other contenders to drop their campaigns.

phill4paul
11-14-2013, 05:49 PM
Lol.

brushfire
11-14-2013, 05:52 PM
"in the opinion of the chair, they ayes have it"

acptulsa
11-14-2013, 05:53 PM
Interesting cover for Romney's attempt to do away with caucuses, among other things.

Somebody seems to dislike delegates who are something more than cheerleaders.

phill4paul
11-14-2013, 05:59 PM
Interesting cover for Romney's attempt to do away with caucuses, among other things.

Yup.

ClydeCoulter
11-15-2013, 08:03 AM
Fearing a Hillary Clinton glide to the nomination in 2016 while unpopular GOP contenders battle it out, Republicans are plotting a ‘Midwestern Super Tuesday’ and earlier convention.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/11/14/republican-party-weighs-a-2016-shakeup-with-midwestern-primary.html

nobody's_hero
11-15-2013, 08:08 AM
I believe the next convention will be railroaded faster and harder than even the last.

FSP-Rebel
11-15-2013, 11:39 AM
I believe the next convention will be railroaded faster and harder than even the last.
If that's the case, then they're going to upset the apple cart of the conservative base even more and send more people into our camp. But, Rand has plenty of time to keep the coalition building going for added strength.