How could the RNC expect any other result from their carnival?
Shifting on gay marriage helps the party with the first group; shifting on immigration reform helps the party with the second – and the combination would presumably send a broader signal that the G.O.P. intends to be less "narrow minded," and less the party of "stuffy old men" (to pluck two of the focus-group phrases cited in the RNC report).
Like so many veterans of the GOP committee, I watched as the RNC slid into debt and decay under former chairman Michael Steele and cheered as Reince Preibus, its current chief, began the challenge of rebuilding the party's national infrastructure.
Blumenthal also engaged in speculation that neocons led by former RNC chair Ed Gillespie were taking control of Mitt Romney's presidential campaign and forwarded Clinton several articles from the leftwing website Salon.com.
Less than a month later, an RNC affiliate sent precisely $190,000 back in coveted "hard" dollars to seven Republican candidates in key Texas House races.
But Florida's Republican bigwigs are unconcerned, suggesting (probably rightly) that the party would not dare to snub the voters of a large swing state.If the RNC can somehow resolve this impasse, points out Josh Putnam, an academic who runs Frontloading HQ, a website which tracks such rows, most other states should fall into line, undoing some of the frontloading of recent years.
It is easy to imagine the nomination remaining undecided into April, says Sean Spicer of the Republican National Committee (RNC), which co-ordinates the primary calendar and organises the convention at which the nominee is crowned.Arizona and Michigan both bucked the rules slightly, setting their primaries for February 28th in a bid to get in ahead of the pack in early March.
But it is Florida which has really snubbed the RNC, prompting the first four states to move their contests even earlier to preserve their prized prerogative.
But officials in several of the offending states have suggested that the attention they will win from candidates and the media outweighs any penalties the RNC may choose to impose.All this has left the primary calendar oddly patchy and attenuated.
