Damn. Check out this calendar now.

[Bucky]

Jan 3 - Iowa Caucuses 41 days from now

Jan 8 - New Hampshire Presidential Primary 46 days from now

Jan 15 - Michigan Presidential Primary 53 days

Jan 19 - Nevada Caucuses 57 days

Jan 29 - Florida Presidential Primary 2 months and a week away

Feb 5 - Super Tuesday Don't worry. It'll all be overwith by this date

Feb 6 - Republican smear machine goes into full production mode.

[Bonobo]

1. "Democracy" at work. But the 2 top-runners were picked a long time ago

in an even less democratic process involving media barons and other international "machers".

[NMDemDist2]

2. New Mexico caucuses on Feb 5th also n/t

[rug]

3. November 5 - Supreme Court orders halt to recounts.

[hlthe2b]

4. Ironic that they made such a big deal about Super Tuesday...

But, yes, I'd say it will be all over by then.. maybe after NH, even.... Which, as a Coloradoan, has given me little impetus to make a clear decision. I'm more concerned about the potential ballot issue to designate a fertilized egg with all rights of a human being, thereby doing a runaround re: abortion and some forms of birth control. :eyes:

[magellan]

5. As a FL resident, I'd like to know

...what use is the FL primary if the national party won't seat our state's delegates at the Dem convention? Doesn't that mean that despite voting in the primary, FL Dems are being excluded from the nominating process?

I'm also curious to know why the national party is so strident about Dems obeying the rules it's willing to disenfranchise FL Dems over a change the FL REPUG legislature made to the primary date...but when it comes to Repugs breaking rules/laws/country, hardly a peep is heard.

[hlthe2b]

6. the whole system is screwed up this year...

It makes most of the country feel as though they aren't even part of the process....:shrug:

[papau]

7. Fl Dem delegayes selected 1/29 must be re-selected after 2/5 so as to be seated - the 1/29

selection will not be recognized.

Caucus would seem the easiest way to do that.

[Debi]

8. You forgot South Carolina which will be either 1/19 or 1/26 n/t