Saturday, November 5, 2011

Balz: 2012 a Weird Year

Dan Balz writes politics for The Washington Post, and may be the closest we have to a replacement for David Broder. He has a column which concludes the 2012 GOP presidential nominating cycle is one of the strangest on record. Balz makes a good argument for that claim.

Among the points Balz has made are these: it started late, has had multiple front-runners, has had many party leaders decide not to run, and has raised little money. Oh yes, and it has focused less on the "early" states of Iowa and New Hampshire than is traditional. All this in spite of a weak Obama looking decidedly "beatable."

Go figure....