Monday, December 30, 2013

Another Take on the RNC's Efforts to Alter the Presidential Nomination Rules for 2016

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S.V. Date has a nice synopsis up over at NPR today about what's different about the RNC work to reign in the 2016 presidential delegate...
Friday, December 20, 2013

Is South Carolina losing its early-primary luster?

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Here we go again . FHQ realizes that we are still roughly two years away from the presidential primary season kicking off in earnest and ...
Thursday, December 12, 2013

Fool Me Once, Shame on Me. Fool Me Twice...

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Look, FHQ gets it: Florida has created a lifetime's worth of uncertainty for the presidential primary calendar (and the nomination proce...
Wednesday, December 11, 2013

A Closer Look at What the RNC Subcommittee on 2016 Delegate Selection Rules Has Been Up To

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Back in September -- actually on the eve of the government shutdown -- FHQ took part in what has become a fairly regular series of meetings ...
Friday, October 11, 2013

"Can it stick?"

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That's Dave Catanese asking whether "no primaries before February 1" will happen in the Republican presidential nomination ra...
Thursday, October 3, 2013

In which FHQ begs George Will to just once dig a little deeper into the presidential nomination process

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Admittedly, FHQ has unreasonable expectations regarding reporting and commentary on the ad hoc system of rules that governs the presidential...
Sunday, September 15, 2013

Candidates who participate in unsanctioned debates should be penalized 30 percent of their delegates

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That's Reince Priebus from Kansas City discussing the 2016 Republican presidential nomination process before the Midwest Republican Lead...
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Thursday, August 29, 2013

The Rules Don't Really Start to Take Shape Until the Candidates or Their Surrogates Get Involved

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Back in the late spring of 2012, FHQ had the opportunity to sit down with folks on the Rules Committees of both parties. The bipartisan grou...
Wednesday, August 28, 2013

North Carolina is the New Missouri

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...or How the 2015-16 North Carolina presidential primary process could look like Missouri's in 2011-12. Now that North Carolina has ...
Tuesday, August 27, 2013

On Iowa's Diminishing Power in Republican Presidential Nominations

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Did I miss something between Saturday and Sunday about Iowa? All anyone has been talking about since then -- at least when it comes to th...