roundup of big state primary calendar news
       |           

Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
Did you miss your activation email?
March 29, 2024, 01:35:02 AM
News: Election Simulator 2.0 Released. Senate/Gubernatorial maps, proportional electoral votes, and more - Read more

  Talk Elections
  Election Archive
  Election Archive
  2008 Elections
  roundup of big state primary calendar news
« previous next »
Pages: 1 2 3 [4] 5
Author Topic: roundup of big state primary calendar news  (Read 9413 times)
Mr. Morden
Atlas Legend
*****
Posts: 44,073
United States


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #75 on: September 01, 2007, 05:10:42 PM »

Some fairly big news on the Democratic side.  First, there had been some talk of the MI Dems ignoring their own state's primary, and going ahead with a Feb. 9th caucus.  But that idea is now dead:

http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/08/news_michigan_dems_are_unanimo.php

But the really big news is that all the Democratic candidates have pledged not to campaign in FL or MI or any other pre-Feb. 5th states other than IA, NV, NH, and SC.  Those four states had circulated this letter yesterday:

http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/08/the_pledge_four_states_urge_de.php

which includes the following pledge for the Dem. presidential candidates to sign:

Quote
You must be logged in to read this quote.

Each of the Democratic candidates has now agreed to these terms:

http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/09/the_jockeying_behind_the_four.php

So there will be no campaigning by the Dem. candidates in FL or MI (I'm assuming the Jan. 15th primary in MI will pass.  It looks like it's certain to.), or any other states that break the rules.

But wait.  NH itself has already announced that they're going to break the rules by moving their primary to at least a week before the Jan. 19th SC GOP primary and NV caucus.  (And IA will presumably move earlier as well....in fact, the people in MI who were pushing the Jan. 15th primary said the reason they were doing so was because IA and NH had already announced they were going to ignore the DNC rules anyway, so why shouldn't MI ignore them too?)  Isn't it the height of hypocrisy for them to be circulating this letter, which says that candidates should avoid other states that break the rules?  I'd say yes.  Anyway, yeah, I expect that IA and NH will be voting earlier than the DNC mandated dates for those states, which means that their delegates won't count either.  Does that mean that the presidential candidates won't campaign there either?  I doubt it....but that would seem to be the logical consequence of this argument.
Logged
Mr. Morden
Atlas Legend
*****
Posts: 44,073
United States


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #76 on: September 04, 2007, 04:11:28 PM »

Granholm has signed the bill moving the MI primary to Jan. 15th:

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2007/09/04/michigan_makes_primary_move_of.html

So it's official now.  And I think the primary calendar is now pretty much set among the largest states:

Jan. 15 MI
Jan. 29 FL
Feb. 5 CA, GA, IL, NJ, NY
March or later NC, OH, PA, TX

Though on the Democratic side, the FL and MI primaries will not count towards awarding any delegates, and all the Dem. candidates (except Gravel and Kucinich) have pledged not to campaign there, in order to respect the DNC calendar.  Speaking of which, MI Dems have sent a letter to the DNC, blasting them for selective enforcement, for apparently turning a blind eye to NH's flouting of the party rules:

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/09/04/344061.aspx

Quote
You must be logged in to read this quote.
Logged
jimrtex
Atlas Icon
*****
Posts: 11,828
Marshall Islands


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #77 on: September 05, 2007, 02:57:11 AM »


In response to the MSNBC article which quotes the Levin-Dingell letter, a reader responded:


Michigan could invade New Hampshire, but after that whipping they took from Appalachian state........

Logged
Mr. Morden
Atlas Legend
*****
Posts: 44,073
United States


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #78 on: September 05, 2007, 12:40:32 PM »

Now there's talk that the boycott of states that violate the DNC rules might go so far as to include candidates witholding their names from the ballot:

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070905/COL04/709050325/1001

Quote
You must be logged in to read this quote.
Logged
Tender Branson
Mark Warner 08
Atlas Institution
*****
Posts: 58,173
Austria


Political Matrix
E: -6.06, S: -4.84

Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #79 on: September 05, 2007, 02:02:20 PM »

"You could have state Democratic Party Chairman Brewer telling Democrats to vote in the GOP primary for Ron Paul"

A big LOL to this failed primary system ... Tongue
Logged
Mr. Morden
Atlas Legend
*****
Posts: 44,073
United States


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #80 on: September 20, 2007, 03:19:22 PM »

The Florida Democrats are backing down on the Jan. 29th primary.  That is, there will still be a Jan. 29th primary, but it looks like the FL Dems will propose an alternative method for awarding Florida's delegates to the Dem. convention, thus putting an end to the candidates' boycott of the state.  So far, there's no indication that the MI Dems will do the same.  The deadline for proposing a new method for awarding delegates is Sept. 29th:

http://www.miamiherald.com/458/story/238351.html

http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070920/NEWS01/709200368/1010

Quote
You must be logged in to read this quote.
Logged
Mr. Morden
Atlas Legend
*****
Posts: 44,073
United States


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #81 on: September 23, 2007, 12:10:30 PM »

Never mind.  The Florida Dems have done another 180, and will not go ahead with any alternative method for delegate selection.  They're going to go ahead with the Jan. 29th primary, and hope that the delegates somehow get counted:

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sfl-flffladems0923nbsep23,0,190842.story
Logged
Mr. Morden
Atlas Legend
*****
Posts: 44,073
United States


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #82 on: November 03, 2007, 08:26:42 PM »

Believe it or not, there's still an outside chance that there could be a further shakeup to the primary calendar, though I think the chances of that happening are probably remote.

What's happening is that the effort by some Michigan Democrats to abandon the state's Jan. 15th primary, and instead hold a caucus on some other date, probably Jan. 8th, isn't quite dead.  This is happening on two different tracks.  First, since most of the Democratic presidential candidates have removed their names from the primary ballot anyway (and none of them are campaigning there), a bill has been proposed in the legislature that would scrap the state's primary, though it looks like it hasn't made any progress so far:

http://www.ballot-access.org/2007/10/29/hearing-set-in-michigan-lawsuit-on-voter-list/

http://www.ballot-access.org/2007/11/03/michigan-bill-to-abolish-presidential-primary-makes-no-headway-so-far/

If this were to pass, then the MI Democrats would hold a caucus instead, and the MI GOP would hold a nominating convention.  But I doubt the Republicans in the state legislature are eager to pass this.  Why would they give up on the primary, if it's giving the state some attention from the GOP candidates?  And it looks like Gov. Granholm is also not too keen on giving up on the primary.  She wants them to hold the primary, send a slate of delegates to the convention, and hope that they're seated.  (That's a strange approach though, as restoring the delegates wouldn't happen until after the nomination is already decided anyway, and it's a sure thing that the primary will receive little attention if Obama and Edwards aren't on the ballot.)

The other track is that, even if this bill doesn't pass, and the primary goes forward on Jan. 15th, under current MI law, either party has until Nov. 14th to decide whether they want to back out of the primary.  The MI Democratic party could just decide on their own not to play in the primary, and instead hold a caucus.  They're meeting on Nov. 7th to discuss this option:

http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/politics/index.ssf?/base/politics-1/1194047055108750.xml&storylist=2006elections

However, because Granholm supports the primary, and as governor, she's kind of de facto leader of the party in the state, chances are they won't do this.  They'll just stick with the primary (that currently lacks most of the Dem. candidates on the ballot and doesn't count under DNC rules).

Who are the MI Dems who are trying to opt out of the primary and instead do a caucus?  Looks like there are two different factions here.  One is John Edwards supporters:

link

Quote
You must be logged in to read this quote.

The other faction is MI Dems (most notably Carl Levin) who are sick of Iowa and NH's priveleged position on the primary calendar, and want to screw over NH by scheduling a caucus on Jan. 8th.  This would presumably push NH into December, which would both 1) really force the issue of reforming the primary calendar in 2012, and 2) possibly cause NH to lose influence, with its primary getting lost in the craziness of the holiday season.

NH SoS Bill Gardner says he won't announce the date of the NH primary until the MI Dems make a final decision on whether or not they'll hold a caucus, and when that caucus might be.
Logged
Mr. Morden
Atlas Legend
*****
Posts: 44,073
United States


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #83 on: November 07, 2007, 01:06:13 PM »

Huge news out of Michigan:

A judge has ruled that law that moved the primary to Jan. 15th unconstitutional.  Which means that as of now, there will be no Jan. 15th primary in the state, for either party:

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071107/NEWS06/71107020/0/SPORTS07

Quote
You must be logged in to read this quote.

Other stories on this seem to indicate that this decision will be immediately appealed, but I don't know what the prospects for it being overturned are.  So right now, it's unclear whether Michigan will actually hold its primary on Jan. 15th.  And it's unclear what the two parties will do if the Jan. 15th primary doesn't happen.
Logged
True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)
Ernest
Moderators
Atlas Legend
*****
Posts: 42,157
United States


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #84 on: November 07, 2007, 02:55:12 PM »

So what happens to the Democratic candidates who pulled out of the Michigan primary?  Will they be able to get on the ballot if it gets rescheduled to the original date or are they screwed?
Logged
Mr. Morden
Atlas Legend
*****
Posts: 44,073
United States


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #85 on: November 07, 2007, 03:21:07 PM »

From following this for a while, my sense of it is that if the MI Dems can't hold a primary on Jan. 15th, then they just won't participate in a primary at all, and will go with a caucus instead (which may or may not be held before Feb. 5th).  Not sure how the caucus would be run, but if it's like the Iowa caucus, then I don't think there would even be a ballot at all.  Caucus-goers express a presidential preference in their caucus meetings, and that gets reported in the statewide results.  At least, I think that's how it works.

Firstread now reports:

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/11/07/453895.aspx

Quote
You must be logged in to read this quote.
Logged
Mr. Morden
Atlas Legend
*****
Posts: 44,073
United States


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #86 on: November 08, 2007, 01:48:15 AM »

The MI Dems had a meeting tonight, and the original plan was to make some kind of final decision on whether to participate in the state's Jan. 15th primary, in light of the DNC sanctions against the state.  However, in light of today's court decision to strike down the primary, that item was taken off the agenda, as they attempt to figure out if the legislature can / will do anything to fix the primary:

http://www.ballot-access.org/2007/11/07/michigan-democrats-postpone-decision-on-whether-to-hold-caucus/

Quote
You must be logged in to read this quote.

As I understand it, the Dems have a Nov. 14th deadline to tell the state whether they'll participate in the primary or not.  Except....that's the very primary that was just struck down.  So maybe there is no deadline.  It looks like the whole thing is up in the air.  And NH SoS Bill Gardner has said that he will not set a date for the NH primary until MI finalizes its plans.  If there is no MI primary on January 15th, I suppose the NH primary might well be held later than the previously assumed Jan. 8th.

Things are as murky as ever regarding when MI and NH are going to vote.
Logged
jimrtex
Atlas Icon
*****
Posts: 11,828
Marshall Islands


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #87 on: November 08, 2007, 05:11:23 AM »

Huge news out of Michigan:

A judge has ruled that law that moved the primary to Jan. 15th unconstitutional.  Which means that as of now, there will be no Jan. 15th primary in the state, for either party:

Other stories on this seem to indicate that this decision will be immediately appealed, but I don't know what the prospects for it being overturned are.  So right now, it's unclear whether Michigan will actually hold its primary on Jan. 15th.  And it's unclear what the two parties will do if the Jan. 15th primary doesn't happen.
I was looking at the legislation that was introduced last year, which reads as follows (where strikeouts are removed, and bold uppercase are additions.  The January 29, 2008 date was later revised to Jan 15th.

Sec. 613a. (1) Except in 2004 when no statewide presidential primary shall be conducted AS OTHERWISE PROVIDED IN SUBSECTION (2) OR (3), a statewide presidential primary election shall be conducted under this act ON JANUARY 29, 2008. AFTER 2008, EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE PROVIDED IN SUBSECTION (2) OR (3), A STATEWIDE PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY ELECTION SHALL BE CONDUCTED UNDER THIS ACT on the fourth FIRST Tuesday in February in each presidential election year.

Which would mean that the law now reverts to:

Sec. 613a. (1) Except in 2004 when no statewide presidential primary shall be conducted, a statewide presidential primary election shall be conducted under this act on the fourth Tuesday in February in each presidential election year.

Subsections (2) and (3) in the amended law are the procedures by which the state parties can opt out of the primary, and if all do, the primary would be cancelled.  It doesn't appear that there was an option for the parties to opt out, and the change made in 2004 was simply to cancel the primary for that year.

The date of the primary has additional significance in Michigan since the fourth Tuesday in February is one of the uniform election dates for holding local elections.  The law that was struct down would move that uniform election date to coincide with the presidential primary (January 15, 2008).

The old law (now reverted to law) provided that the Secretary of State would issue a list of candidates based on media reports by the 2nd Friday in November (that's this coming Friday), and the state parties could add to by the following Tuesday.   Candidates would have until December to remove themselves from the ballot.

The part of the law that triggered the court's action was apparently an attempt to make party affilication confidential and not a public record.  Michigan does not appear to have party registration.  So perhaps an appeal could be made on the basis that "membership" in a political party is not a matter of public record.

There is a bill filed that would eliminate the presidential primary for 2008, which basically undoes everything that the law passed last summer did.  But I would think that the legislature would be just as likely to try to fix the January 15 primary as to completely eliminate it.
Logged
Mr. Morden
Atlas Legend
*****
Posts: 44,073
United States


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #88 on: November 08, 2007, 09:25:20 PM »
« Edited: November 09, 2007, 01:08:10 AM by Mr. Morden »

Update on Michigan:

The state legislature moved fast to fix the Jan. 15th primary law today, but they appear to have failed, at least temporarily:

link

Quote
You must be logged in to read this quote.

Unclear whether there's still any chance the Jan. 15th primary will be salvaged legislatively.  If it isn't, then the only way the Jan. 15th primary will happen is if yesterday's court ruling is reversed on appeal.

This article:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/realclearpolitics/20071108/cm_rcp/primary_calendar_drama_continu

makes it sound as if there is still a Nov. 14th deadline for all of this to be sorted out.  But if it's resolved with new legislation, then I don't see why the Nov. 14th deadline would need to apply.  The MI legislature can create any new deadline it wishes.  The only hard deadline is the length of time it takes to organize a primary.

What happens if there is no Jan. 15th primary (as is starting to look more likely)?  According to that first article:

Quote
You must be logged in to read this quote.

However, the second article I mentioned offers a different scenario:

Quote
You must be logged in to read this quote.

Suffice it to say, if the MI Dems hold caucuses on Jan. 5th or even Jan. 12th, the chances are extremely high that NH would move its primary to December.

Update: Yet another possible date for a MI Democratic caucus has been floated:

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071108/UPDATE/711080507/1361

Quote
You must be logged in to read this quote.
Logged
jimrtex
Atlas Icon
*****
Posts: 11,828
Marshall Islands


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #89 on: November 09, 2007, 02:14:26 AM »

Update on Michigan:

The state legislature moved fast to fix the Jan. 15th primary law today, but they appear to have failed, at least temporarily:
The Senate took a bill related to timing of school board elections that the House had passed last May and had been pigeon-holed in the Senate Education Committee ever since.  On Thursday, the Senate discharged the bill from the education committee, sent it to he committee of the whole, where all the primary election law was stuffed into it, and then passed it, but failed the 2/3 vote to give it immediate effect.  The vote on passage was 26-10-2, but to make it immediately effective it was 21-15-2.

The new bill would give the SoS until November 14 to set the candidate list, after which the candidates would get a second chance to withdraw (previously all but Clinton, Dodd, Gravel, and Kucinich had withdrawn).

Since the bill greatly amended the version passed by the House, the House would either have to agree to the Senate amendments, or send it to a conference committee.  And without the supermajority to give immediate effect, passage of the bill is meaningless.

Quote
You must be logged in to read this quote.
The Senate stuck a November 14th deadline for setting the initial candidate lists.

I still think that if the court case is not appealed, that the law will revert to the 4th Tuesday in February. 

But that might not satisfy the Democrats, who might still end up holding caucuses.  The reason for creating the lists of persons who voted in each primary is to satisfy the National Democratic Parties rules which forbid the use of open primaries in the selection of convention delegates.  So even if the new January 15th bill were passed, the court would likely sever the part that made the primary acceptable to the NDP.

Quote
You must be logged in to read this quote.

However, the second article I mentioned offers a different scenario:

Quote
You must be logged in to read this quote.

Suffice it to say, if the MI Dems hold caucuses on Jan. 5th or even Jan. 12th, the chances are extremely high that NH would move its primary to December.

Update: Yet another possible date for a MI Democratic caucus has been floated:

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071108/UPDATE/711080507/1361

Quote
You must be logged in to read this quote.
[/quote]
I suspect that sooner or later, they'll discover that the primary is scheduled for the 4th Tuesday in February - which coincides with a uniform election date in Michigan.

But the Democrats won't permit an open primary to be used for delegate selection, and the Republicans won't want to go that late, so everybody will agree to cancel the primary in 2008, just like was done in 2004.

BTW, one of the articles mentioned that the GOP had penalized 5 states for holding early primaries or caucuses.  The 5 are FL, MI, NH, SC, WY.  IA and NV are apparently not penalized because their GOP precinct caucuses don't formally elect delegates to county conventions on the basis of candidate preference.  What procedure is used to elect the delegates is left up to those attending the precinct caucuses.
Logged
StateBoiler
fe234
YaBB God
*****
Posts: 3,890


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #90 on: November 09, 2007, 09:40:42 AM »

From First Read. Even New Hampshire is getting penalized!

Quote
You must be logged in to read this quote.
Logged
Mr. Morden
Atlas Legend
*****
Posts: 44,073
United States


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #91 on: November 10, 2007, 05:38:09 PM »

Yes, unlike the DNC, which specifically allowed 4 states to vote pre-Feb. 5th, the RNC doesn't have any special exemptions for Iowa and NH, or anyone else.  But the RNC's sanctions aren't serious enough to dissuade candidates from campaigning in those states.  Losing half your delegates is a price that's more than offset by going first.

Anyway, back to Michigan.  Here are some additional details on the MI GOP's likely backup plan if the Jan. 15th primary fails, and some added background on the legislative dealmaking:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/politics_nation/2007/11/michigan_in_chaos.html

Quote
You must be logged in to read this quote.

If nothing happens to restore the Jan. 15th primary, then I assume the MI GOP will go forward with this Jan. 25/26 convention, significantly diminishing the state's influence on the GOP race from what it would have been with a Jan. 15th primary.  (Both because it would be later, and because a convention isn't going to get the same amount of media attention as a primary.)  The Dems would hold a caucus, but there's no consensus on when that caucus would be.  It might be Feb. 9th.  Or it might be in January.  Potentially in early January, even as early as Jan. 5th.

The state legislature apparently will only be meeting one day this coming week (Tuesday) before going on vacation, so I assume if they can't make a deal via horsetrading on that day, the only hope for the primary would be if the court decision is overturned on appeal.  The state has in fact submitted an appeal.

If the primary is dropped, what effect would it have on the race?  Well, aside from the implications on the scheduling of the NH primary, there'd probably be no effect on the Dem. side, because the state had already been stripped of its delegates, and the candidates were ignoring it anyway.  On the GOP side, this would make the SC primary more important, which would probably collectively help Huckabee, McCain, and Thompson.  It makes it a little more likely that one of them will be able to upset Giuliani and Romney, because Giuliani and Romney would both have advantages in MI that they wouldn't in SC.  (Both because they have more $, and MI is a more expensive state to run in, and because Giuliani and Romney are not the kind of Republicans who you would expect to play well in SC.)
Logged
Mr. Morden
Atlas Legend
*****
Posts: 44,073
United States


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #92 on: November 14, 2007, 01:21:44 PM »
« Edited: November 14, 2007, 05:08:06 PM by Mr. Morden »

County clerks across MI have been ordered to halt preparations for the Jan. 15th primary, due to the court ruling:

http://www.michigansthumb.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19022338&BRD=2292&PAG=461&dept_id=571474&rfi=6

The state has asked the appeals court for a ruling on their appeal of the decision ASAP, preferably by the end of this week, because they need time to prepare for the primary, if it's really going to happen on Jan. 15th.  I would be surprised if this isn't all settled by Thanksgiving.

Update:

The MI Democratic Party has confirmed that it will stick with the primary rather than switch to a caucus *if* the primary is held on Jan. 15th:

http://www.fox28.com/News/index.php?ID=28122

Also, the state Court of Appeals is set to hear oral arguments in the case tomorrow.
Logged
Mr. Morden
Atlas Legend
*****
Posts: 44,073
United States


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #93 on: November 15, 2007, 04:38:19 PM »

The Michigan Court of Appeals heard the case today, but offered no clues as to when they would make a ruling:

http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=7366050&nav=0Rcd

Quote
You must be logged in to read this quote.

It also looks like the hard deadline on when this must be resolved by is Dec. 1st.  If the primary is Jan. 15th, the overseas military absentee ballots must be sent out by then.

Also, NBC's Firstread continues to say that there's a good chance that this will be resolved legislatively.  But everything else I've read suggests the chances of that happening are slim.
Logged
Mr. Morden
Atlas Legend
*****
Posts: 44,073
United States


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #94 on: November 16, 2007, 07:21:29 PM »

The court has rejected the state's appeal, and the decision to strike down the state's primary stands:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hAWD_zB3_RzCIVVeao207KrMPexAD8SV2L0O0

So now the only way to salvage the Jan. 15th primary is legislatively, but don't hold your breath on that one.
Logged
jimrtex
Atlas Icon
*****
Posts: 11,828
Marshall Islands


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #95 on: November 18, 2007, 01:01:11 AM »

The court has rejected the state's appeal, and the decision to strike down the state's primary stands:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hAWD_zB3_RzCIVVeao207KrMPexAD8SV2L0O0

So now the only way to salvage the Jan. 15th primary is legislatively, but don't hold your breath on that one.

The Court of Appeal's opinion was kind of interesting.   The decision was 2-1 upholding the circuit court's decision, but the dissent laid out the whole case and the reasoning, and the majority decision simply agreed with much of the dissent, except the conclusion as to whether giving the voter list's to the parties was for a public purpose or not.

I suspect that the legislature held off meeting last week to wait for the court's decision.  If the court of appeals had overturned the decision, the legislature would be off the hook.  Now they will be able to bring pressure on the house and senate to pass the replacement bill.

It could still get procedurally messy.  The new primary bill HB 4507 was passed by the House last May (it concerned school board elections), and had been pigeonholed in a senate committee without a hearing.  The Senate pulled it out of the committee and grafted the primary legislation in to the bill, and passed it with a 2/3 majority which permits the lists to be given to the parties, but then failed to get a 2/3 majority to take effect in time for the election.

It also set a bunch of deadlines which have already passed.  So the House will probably have to disagree with Senate on the amendments, and then a conference committee will fix up the bill, and then it can be sent back to both houses to be approved, and given a 2/3 vote to take immediate effect.
An interesting twist in the new bill is that for a candidate to be left off the ballot, they have to sign an affidavit that they aren't running for president.  And even if they do that, the Secretary of State can make a determination that they are actually running and leave them on the ballot.
Logged
jimrtex
Atlas Icon
*****
Posts: 11,828
Marshall Islands


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #96 on: November 18, 2007, 01:02:09 AM »

The Massachusetts Senate has approved a February 5th primary.
Logged
Mr. Morden
Atlas Legend
*****
Posts: 44,073
United States


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #97 on: November 19, 2007, 12:01:40 PM »

Well, it looks like they're not giving up.  The MI attorney general's office is appealing the ruling again, this time to the state supreme court:

http://www.chippewa.com/articles/2007/11/19/ap/politics/d8t0r80g0.txt

Quote
You must be logged in to read this quote.
Logged
Mr. Morden
Atlas Legend
*****
Posts: 44,073
United States


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #98 on: November 20, 2007, 10:54:12 AM »

The Michigan legislature won't be meeting today after all, so it looks like any legislative fix is dead:

http://www.ballot-access.org/2007/11/19/michigan-house-wont-meet-on-november-20/

Quote
You must be logged in to read this quote.
Logged
Mr. Morden
Atlas Legend
*****
Posts: 44,073
United States


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #99 on: November 20, 2007, 07:48:58 PM »

The Jan. 15th primary is looking deader and deader.  Now the state's county clerks are saying that there's not enough time left to get out all the absentee ballots:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hAWD_zB3_RzCIVVeao207KrMPexAD8T1JFO80

Quote
You must be logged in to read this quote.
Logged
Pages: 1 2 3 [4] 5  
« previous next »
Jump to:  


Login with username, password and session length

Terms of Service - DMCA Agent and Policy - Privacy Policy and Cookies

Powered by SMF 1.1.21 | SMF © 2015, Simple Machines

Page created in 0.072 seconds with 13 queries.