Showing posts with label region (South). Show all posts
Showing posts with label region (South). Show all posts
Thursday, March 3, 2016

On a Revisionist History of the 1988 Southern Super Tuesday

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This overly retweeted tweet made its way into the FHQ Twitter feed yesterday, and it really strikes me as #wrong. Let me say it again: Fr...
Saturday, April 18, 2015

A Coda on Mississippi and the SEC Primary or Sometimes Moving Up Isn't All It's Cracked Up to Be

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FHQ has been meaning to get to Geoff Pender's autopsy of Mississippi's failed attempt to join the SEC primary all week. The crux of...
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Tuesday, January 20, 2015

State Legislatures Move Most Presidential Primaries. ...But They Have to Change State Law First

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Don Gonyea had a good background piece on the possibility/formation of an SEC primary this morning on NPR's Morning Edition. However...
Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Will a Calendar Bump Up Mean More Candidate Visits in SEC Primary States?

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Just this morning Alabama Secretary of State-elect, John Merrill (R) clearly added his voice to the chorus of SEC presidential primary supp...
Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Why Getting Arkansas into an SEC Primary is More Difficult

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As the 2015 state legislative sessions draw nearer , primary movement for the 2016 cycle is back on the radar. Lately, much of that discuss...
Monday, December 29, 2014

But Southern States Will Have to Be Proportional

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Throughout 2014 the idea of a southern regional primary has gathered some steam. Thanks to the efforts of Georgia Secretary of State, Brian...
Sunday, December 28, 2014

Louisiana not inclined to join 'SEC' presidential primary day in 2016

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The story from the Times-Picayune. -- A couple of notes: 1. Louisiana, as the story notes, has already moved its presidential primary ...
Wednesday, December 24, 2014

A Couple of Reasons the 2016 Texas Presidential Primary Isn't Going Anywhere

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There's been a nice call and response between James Hohmann at Politico and Patrick Svitek at the Houston Chronicle over the 2016 pres...
Thursday, March 6, 2014

An SEC Primary in 2016? Not so fast… (Part II)

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A couple of weeks ago FHQ examined the likelihood that the states most closely associated with Secretary of State Brian Kemp's (R-GA) so...
Thursday, February 20, 2014

An SEC Primary in 2016? Not so fast… (Part I)

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Last week at the National Association of Secretaries of State meeting in Washington, Georgia secretary of state, Brian Kemp (R), rolled out ...
Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Newt's Challenge & Problem: Becoming Huckabee+

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On the heels of the South Carolina primary, FHQ speculated that one of the main questions that emerged from the Gingrich win/Romney loss was...
Monday, January 23, 2012

Musings on the Republican Nomination Race, Post-South Carolina

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Where do we go from here? Following the Gingrich victory in South Carolina, the race for the Republican presidential nomination has taken ...