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Pass the turkey, the stuffing and…

the absentee ballots?

That very well could be the new Thanksgiving tradition if you’re from New Hampshire and plan on celebrating the annual family gathering somewhere other than your own homestead.

Here in South Carolina (where we’re rounding out a few days of r’n'r), the big news this morning in political circles is the revelation that South Carolina GOP chairman Katon Dawson will personally deliver a letter to New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner settling the date of the South Carolina GOP Primary once and for all (or at least until another one of the states longing to assert itself leapfrogs the currrent hierarchy).  Dawson is delivering the letter to “protect this battleground” in referring to South Carolina’s “first in the South” primary status (although the South Carolina Democratic Party intends to keep its primary date on January 29th.

South Carolina’s Republicans are moving their date in reaction to the state of Florida’s decision to move it’s primary date to January 29th.

I understand the desire of these states to want to be involved in the active portion of the primary process (where their votes really will help to determine the respective party’s nomineees), but c’mon.

If this cascade of stupidity continues it is extremely likely that both parties nominees could very well be determined BEFORE the end of January.

Talk about disenfranchisement.