PLEASE EXPLAIN: Why do South Carolinians have TWO primaries?

[Radio_Lady]

Republicans voted today. Democrats vote next Saturday. Is this something new this year? What about independents?

Would somebody fire off a simple answer to a needy inquirer?

Thanks a lot.

[question everything]

1. Each party has its own schedule

In most cases they hold them at the same time but in SC and, I think, a few others, they hold them at different times, especially this year with the mad dash to move ahead.

Wyoming had its Republican Jan. 5th (Hunter won it) but the Democratic caucus will be March 8.

Main will have its Republican caucus Feb. 1, but the Democrats will caucus Feb. 10, and so it goes.

http://politics.nytimes.com/election-guide/2008/primaries/democraticprimaries/index.html

http://politics.nytimes.com/election-guide/2008/primaries/republicanprimaries/index.html

[The Straight Story]

2. Cause like my wife says - "once is not enough"

:rofl:

[Radio_Lady]

5. You have to tell the whole joke... I'll give you the actual punch line...

"Once a king, always a king. But once a knight's enough."

You can fill in the rest!

Thanks for posting.

[99th_Monkey]

3. I wondered the same thing.

When I saw only Rethug SC results being broadcast, and not the Dems... low and behold .. two different dates.

I never heard of this before, but that doesn't mean it's new .. i just don't know.

Let's see if anyone can clear this up for us. thanks for posting the question tho, cuz I share your curiosity..

[theredpen]

4. I noticed that the RNC "fined" SC half its delegates for breaking the schedule

...so this might be an anomaly.

[aquart]

6. It's a completely loony year.

Have the astrologer's weighed in with an astral explanation?

[theredpen]

8. As a matter of fact, yes. Astrology forcast:

As it turns out my wife it writing a thesis on the effects of Greco-Roman astrology on early Christianity, so this is how she says the Greeks would have called it:

Pluto has entered the constellation of Ophiuchus (Ah-fyoo-kus).

This is a forgotten 13th sign that fills in the partial month that's needed to reconcile a lunar calendar with a solar year. Ophiuchus was a healer god, who was eventually killed by two giant snakes sent by Zeus (this is why there are two snakes on the healing staff of Mercury; it's an Ophiuchus reference). Ophiuchus had the ability to heal and raise people from the dead and his great crime was to start charging for his services; Zeus dispatched him with the snakes, so he ended up going to the underworld and serving as a judge under Pluto's realm.

Pluto entering Ophiuchus would signal that Ophiuchus is now under Pluto's realm, so it is a period where his crimes will be punished. His main failing was hubris (thinking that his gift could be used for his own gain), so from now until some time in 2017 is a bad time to have hubris (look out Repubs!). Also, it's a bad time to be running a profit-motivated health care system, as that will be torn down (or somehow destroyed by Zeus).

Pluto is not only the bringer of Karmic payback, but also the ruler of change (death and rebirth). If something needs to be changed, it will be; if it's been really ignored, it will be radically changed. Ophiuchus pissed off Ares because he brought life when Ares brought war and death. Hermes would show up to pick someone up for transport to Charon's ferry to the underworld and Ophiuchus would raise them from the dead and Hermes would be like, "I wasted a trip!" So, look for radical (and righteous) reversals over the next decade.

Anyway, that's what the Greek astrologers would say. Cross your fingers and pray over your lucky astrology mood watch that they'd be right. :)

P.S. Yes, the ex-planet Pluto was not discovered until 1920. Still, the Greeks always believed that Pluto must have a planet, but that they just couldn't see it (Pluto being a god of hidden things). This is why it's considered valid to assign this modern planetoid to the ancient Greek god.

[lame54]

9. But Pluto is gone again...

Just another thing we lost under Bush's watch

[NoPasaran]

10. No kidding. Bad enough we lost a city under his watch

But an entire freaking planet?!?!

[theredpen]

11. LOL

But seriously, Pluto isn't gone, it's just off the list of planets, according to astronomers. Astrology and astronomy are not the same thing.

[AndyTiedye]

7. So the FSM Could Punish the Repiggies By Making them Vote in a Snowstorm

[alfredo]

12. One was not enough and three too many.