Category Archives: California


Florida moving up primary into the window

This is quite interesting… Apparently, the Florida state legislature is moving up the primary, again, to January 29th.
This would be the same day as South Carolina, I believe. I see several implications:

I believe that the Democrats will penalize Florida for this by either stripping their delegates or stripping a large number of them. Perhaps one […]

California open-primary, California politics, and John McCain

Update: I have two additions, both from Jon Fleischman. First, Duf Sundheim denies in writing that he supports John McCain. Usually conservatives have trouble that anyone supports McCain. It is amusing that they insist on it here. Second, Fleischman, in his second post, gets a firm denial from the McCain campaign that they are pushing […]

Calendar stuff and new goofy GOP delegate selection processes

First, Bill Gardner, the NH’s Secretary of State is set to move up the New Hampshire primary to January 14th, 2008. Iowa would then have to move up too, as David Yepsen notes. There’s an important undercurrent here. Both of these are swing states, and the DNC rules would strip both of these states of […]

California moving up

This is big and complicated. California is strongly considering moving up to February 5th. This will have an enormous impact on the race. First, the money barrier to entry just got a lot bigger. A lot. California is really really big.
Second, the rules, on the Republican side, in California are quite strange and still in […]

Romney losing his California fundraising consultant?

The FlashReport has a mumble of trouble with Mitt Romney’s California fundraising operation:
There are some changes taking place in the California operations of Mitt Romney’s fledgling campaign for President.  FR is still tracking down the details, but we’ve heard from very reliable sources that California uber-fundraising Anne Dunsmore and her California Capital Campaigns (see the […]