An uproar over '08 primary calendar
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Florida's decision to move its primary to Jan. 29 in defiance of both parties' rules fuels speculation about penalties.
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By Michael Williams Readers' editor  Each week from now on I'll be owning up in this slot to solecisms, slips and just plain inaccuracies. I am sure you will let me know about them. First, two errors from our food pages from 10 June.
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Tomorrow is yet another day for racking up delegates. And songs, or not.
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The early eruption of activity for next yearÃ¢ÂÂs presidential election isnÃ¢ÂÂt the only major political news confronting Colorado voters at this unusually early stage of the 2007-08 election cycle. The stateÃ¢ÂÂs open-seat Senate race Ã¢ÂÂ possibly the top priority for Democratic strategists seeking to maintain or expand their partyÃ¢ÂÂs current and narrow Senate majority Ã¢ÂÂ is already taking shape.
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A look at three of the early contests for the Republican and Democratic presidential nominations in 2008:
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In Arizona, one House candidate called party officials idiots. In Rhode Island, ad-makers turned a Senate hopeful into a political pinata.
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Can Clinton stop the Obama tidal wave? Can Romney rebound? A record throng turns out in the nation's first primary
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With California leading the stampede, states are rushing to get more clout in the 2008 White House race by moving their primaries to early February -- a shift that could aid front-runners with big names and big bank accounts.
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Sir, I hope that all city councillors saw the Country Calendar programme, Saturday January 27. The programme graphically showed the importance of wetlands. Such areas were prolific around our estuaries in 1961. The destruction of our wetlands around Tahunanui, Annesbrook and Stoke horrifies me.
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The Democrats have taken the lead in the showdown between Florida and the national party organizations over the stateÃ¢ÂÂs determination to hold its 2008 presidential primary on Jan. 29 Ã¢ÂÂ a week earlier than party rules allow. And so far, both the Florida Democratic Party and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) are sticking to their guns.
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The Internet doesn't have time zones, and while my colleagues in the blogosphere who happen to be located in the Eastern or Central time zones were watching the debate live on TV, we in the western states were left to either wait three hours, or DIY a Ustream webcast of the debate, which we did. About half way through we figured out how to make the local New Hampshire ABC affiliate webcast work on a Mac, and it was a little easier to understand what was going on. In 2008, sixteen years into the web, there's no excuse for not broadcasting a political event live to the world. If ABC News hasn't got the ability to do it, then ABC News shouldn't be running it. That Facebook lent its name and reputation to this fiasco is amazing. Why didn't they speak up?  BTW, otoh, Charles Gibson was a great moderator and the format was, in every way, fantastic. What a shame we all couldn't experience at the same time.
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HereÃ¢ÂÂs how fast the money chase has accelerated in the still-early contest for the 2008 presidential nominations: The amounts raised individually between April and June by each of the two leading aspirants for the Democratic nomination appear likely to match or exceed the totals raised in the parallel period by the top five contenders for the partyÃ¢ÂÂs 2004 nod Ã¢ÂÂ combined.
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The DNC chairman's efforts to punish state Dems for an early primary could hurt the party when it counts most
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It is obvious that the entire world should go metric, it is a superior system to archaic and arbitrary measurement systems. Eventually of course, the world will also adopt a uniform currency, motivated purely by cost savings. We see this already beginning in the world with the creation of the Euro, and the coalescing of regional economic units, such as NAFTA and ASEAN, that will someday adopt their own uniform currencies.  And the world is also on the same calendar, mostly, motivated by synchronization of business work. But unlike the metric system, the Gregorian Calendar is a hodge podge of historical and whimsical adjustments. Days of the week don't correlate with months, or years, and I still need to look up how many days there are in a given month now and then. You need to be an autistic savant to tell what day of the week a given month and year falls on. That's nonsense. The year can be divided in a lot simpler way than the anachronistic monstrosity that is the bastardized Roman Calendar.
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The primary day debacle in Montgomery and Prince George's counties will add momentum to regional efforts to ensure that election systems create a paper record of each vote, according to some elected officials and activists critical of paperless balloting.
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Georgia and Alaska joined the growing list of states pushing up their presidential primary voting to Feb. 5, a date clearly shaping up as a national primary day for Republicans and Democrats.