Obama, Edwards and Richardson pull out of Michigans primary cuz Mich peeps set the date too early.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/09/michigan.primary/index.html

There goes YOUR presidential hard on, Michigan.

Like we NEEDED more proof that our state legislators (regardless of party) are a bunch of fucking idiots... <sigh>

now we're relevent.

I understand that the Michigan Legislature is contemplating holding the Michigan Primary for 2016 next April.

Michigan's legislature seems to be in the midst of a gigantic goddamn brain drain for which I can think of no reasonable explanation.

Michigan's legislature seems to be in the midst of a gigantic goddamn brain drain for which I can think of no reasonable explanation.
Term limits. Since the job isn't, the two big consequences have been:

1) no one truly "senior" to act like an adult and leader amongst children, not much stratification and large groups of people all at about the same rank

2) everyone looking to be good beholden servants to whoever will give them post-legislature work -- "please assist yourself before assisting others"

Lots of states wanted their primary early so they can get suck-time with the candidates, but we were brilliant enough to make it so early that a national party rejects it, allying with the oh-so-brilliant electioneering minds of Florida. (Ahhh, the mitten-shaped state grabbing the penis-shaped state -- true love!)

I saw that too...Florida going through the same thing. But iirc DNC(?) was considering letting Florida have their date. Is that cuz Florida is such a huge win for candidates in the general???

I was reading another article where both Dems and Reps agree to change the process where there will be like 5 different regions for primaries. Y'all might already know about this but a North East primary season from ?date to ?date, then a South East from ? to ?, and on and on.

That way the candidates won't have to travel from California to New York on a daily basis.

California has moved our up too, but within the dates allowed. The candidates don't have to spend much time or money out here. Arnie didn't like that.

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Wow, the amount of red on that map is shameful.

Term limits. Since the job isn't, the two big consequences have been:

1) no one truly "senior" to act like an adult and leader amongst children, not much stratification and large groups of people all at about the same rank

2) everyone looking to be good beholden servants to whoever will give them post-legislature work -- "please assist yourself before assisting others"


3) The only people in lansing with experience and institutional memory are the lobbyists. It's shifting from special interest lobbyists wooing/bribing/cajoling legislators to legislators having to rely on lobbyists just to work through the mechanics of how to get a bill done and inform themselves on their constituents' issues.