Iowa Moves Up Republican Primary To Jan. 3

[brooklynite]

Source: AP

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) Iowa Republicans on Tuesday rescheduled their presidential nominating caucuses to Jan. 3 in response to other states scheduling early contests.

"With under 80 days to go, this is a huge help to our counties and county chairs to get the ball rolling and start organizing," Chuck Laudner, executive director of the Iowa GOP, said in a statement.

The announcement came late Tuesday after the state central committee, two national committee members and the party chairman approved the date on a conference call.

Laudner said Republicans will continue to talk with the Iowa Democratic Party, which has yet to choose a caucus date. Democrats are believed to be considering Jan. 3 and Jan. 5. If they choose the later date, it would mean the first split caucus since the 1970s.

Read more: http://wcbstv.com/politics/Iowa.primary.Republican.2.375768.html

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This is a Thursday, allowing candidates to relocate to NH for weekend campaigning before the (for now) scheduled primary on Jan 8, but if anyone trips and falls...

[Doctor Cynic]

1. Oh man

Everyone's pushing their dates earlier and earlier. If this goes on then in 20 years we'll have people announcing their candidacy immadiately after the last presidential election. ;) Is it possible for them to keep the campaign season short and sweet, like 4 months?

[Hardrada]

3. Well, it used to be that some people were perpetual candidates

like Harold Stassen. They didn't need to announce because they were always candidates. Lyndon LaRouche too, I think. So in one sense this is nothing new. And Bush was always running from Day One untild his second fraudulent elction.

[bluestateguy]

2. Why not just make the caucus on Election Day 2007

That would make it all a lot more simple, and sufficiently absurd.

[OneBlueSky]

4. next time around, some state will schedule their primary/caucus . . .

for the first week in December in the year the previous election is held . . . the candidates will be out campaigning before Christmas, two years in advance and less than two months after the prior election . . .

that's how absurd this is getting . . .