The shoving match between states in
regards to the upcoming presidential primaries and caucuses is
heating up, with New Hampshire threatening to move their primary to
early or mid December if Nevada goes forward with their plans to move
their caucuses to early January. That is certainly going to screw up
campaign schedules and make the campaign season far too long. It's
too darned long now, and the bigger states like Florida figure they
should be the ones to set the tone despite the fact they'll kill off
any of the retail campaigning so prevalent in smaller states that
helps less well known candidates gain some traction. Should Florida
succeed, the only viable candidates will be those with huge bank
accounts at the beginning of each campaign season. Better, but less
well funded candidates will be locked out because campaigning in
states like Florida at the beginning of primary season requires more
money than most candidates will have available to them that early in
the campaign. Voters already complain that political contributions
corrupt the process as it is now. What will they be saying when only
the well funded will be able to campaign at all?
This does not bode well for the
election process.