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"The 2008 race is over, and with remarkably little drama in the home stretch. There was not wholesale election fraud, voting machines didn&amp;#x27;t break down in massive numbers, and we are not all waiting on a recount in Missouri to know who our next president is. Democracy worked, and I feel privileged to have had a ring-side seat. Before I sign off Glamocracy entirely, I&amp;#x27;m going to make some predictions for 2012, if only to amuse myself in four years when I see how wrong I was. Are you with me? The primary schedule will change. Both parties want it to, the National Association of Secretaries of State want it to, and the voters do, too. This years&amp;#x27; insane front loading of primaries was not only ridiculous, it was ineffective, since it turned out the states that waited got more attention. Look for a rotating plan that keeps Iowa and New Hampshire first, but lets the rest of the states take turns at early dates in an orderly fashion. Campaign finance will change, or die. Barack Obama&amp;#x27;s massive financial advantage allowed him to compete in states Democrats haven&amp;#x27;t contested in decades. So why would a presidential candidate ever take public financing again? There will be election reform. I don&amp;#x27;t know whether this will happen on the state or federal level. But look for more government-sponsored registration, more early voting, and more vote-by-mail. A competitive, potentially ugly divide will form between the Romney and Palin factions of the GOP. Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin are the two clear frontrunners to lead the Republican Party, but they have little in common. I predict a growing rift between Romney&amp;#x27;s team of coastal, affluent, fiscally-minded elites vs. Palin&amp;#x27;s populist, middle-class, anti-Washington, social conservatives. I should probably add a fifth one: I will swear up and down that I will never cover a presidential campaign again, but find, perversely, that I miss it. That one, I&amp;#x27;m pretty confident about. Thanks for a great year!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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