They Moved the Cheese! The South Carolina Primary, that is!

Washington Post Posting.

Oh boy am I gonna enjoy including the decision by South Carolina to move it's primary up in my fall semester course on the Iowa Caucuses! http://www.iowacaucusclass.com

The media is all jiggly and jiggy about this unspeakable "front loading" of caucuses and primaries!

Don't you colleagues remember that IN THE US ELECTIONS ARE RUN BY THE STATES!

That's right, not the federal government!

And primaries and caucuses are in theory not run by government at all but by state political parties.

But now these caucuses and primaries have become "economic development' events or maybe they've been "Rodney Dangerfielded" - "WE GET NO RESPECT if we are later in the season".

The truth is that we have now opened a Pandora's box of undisciplined and ambitious states running the show.

Once the dam breaks it becomes a mob scene.

Ugly stuff but fun to watch as an analyst and as a journalist (17 years as Dr Politics on WOI at Iowa State).

Let the lions into the coliseum!

It's about to get interesting.