A week ago was the first meeting of a group from the Republican National Committee and yesterday the first public meeting of a commission by the Democratic National Committee, both focused on reforming their parties primary process. There are many issues at hand, what role should smaller states like Iowa and New Hampshire which currently dominate the early process really be given compared to large states like Texas and California, how long should the process last, should Super Tuesday continue to become a de-facto national primary date?

There are still no answers and undoubtedly many meetings will take place before something concrete comes to fruition.

More Info
- Caucus Blog: It is never to soon to think about 2012

- Introducing the Democratic Change Commission
- Official site of the DNC Commission

- RNC poised to begin altering its primary calendar for 2012

Described as a “Fiscal Hawk” and a veteran of the Iraq War Massachusetts businessman James Gettens has announced he will challenge current Democratic Rep. Harold Naughton Jr. in the 2010 mid-term elections.

Good morning all. You may have noticed that the site was down for a little while. I had a lot of difficulties with malware spammers, Google, Twitter and just a heap of personal life stuff. Not everything was bad, I celebrated the birth of a beautiful new niece and have been taking every opportunity to spend time with her and my growing nephew. So some of the downtime was spent very positively.

With that said I have been cleaning up the site and rebuilding. You can now find me on a new Twitter account (Election_Geek) I will be updating from now on. I am fixing problems still with the Election 2008 section, building Election 2009 section and when that is done will start in on the basic info for Election 2010.

Sorry for the downtime but ready to get back into it!

Politico reports that Missouri State Senatoe Chuck Purgason is considering a run for the open Senate seat in 2010. Purgason is a second-term state Senator who Politico says is described as being, “on the very conservative Republican side.”