A new Quinnipiac poll in Pennsylvania finds that by a 52% to 40% majority, voters want to continue the state’s current winner-take-all Electoral College system, rather than switch to a system proposed by Republicans where Electoral College votes are awarded based on the winner in each congressional district.

Voters say by a 57% to 32% that Republicans want to switch to a district-by-district count to help Republican presidential candidates, rather than to better reflect the will of the voters.

Sarah Palin suggested to Fox News that being president might be too limiting:

“Does a title shackle a person? Are they — someone like me, maverick, you know, I do go rogue, and I call it like I see it, and I don’t mind stirring it up…. is a title and is a campaign too shackling? Does that prohibit me from being out there, out of the box, not allowing handlers to shape me?”

Florida “is expected to move its presidential primary to the last day in January 2012, a move likely to throw the carefully arranged Republican nominating calendar into disarray and jumpstart the nominating process a month earlier than party leaders had hoped,” CNN reports.

“If that happens, it would almost certainly force the traditional early states of Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada to leapfrog Florida and move their primaries and caucuses into early- to mid-January.”

Ben Smith: “Florida’s likely decision to move its primary into late January will strain the RNC’s
carefully-constructed primary calendar. It could produce total chaos; or
it could just bump the process forward a few weeks, leaving it in
similar shape.”

North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue (D) said the country should suspend congressional elections for two years “so that Congress can focus on economic recovery and not the next election,” the Raleigh News and Observer reports.

Said Perdue: “I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won’t hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover. I really hope that someone can agree with me on that. You want people who don’t worry about the next election.”

Update: Was Perdue joking, as her staff now claims? Audio of her remarks was just posted.