sources close to lindsey graham say he will announce his presidential run june 1st, probably in south carolina. lindsey graham s announcement will come, if you re counting, roughly 240 days before the first actual nominating contest, which is the iowa caucus. lit come about 500 days before the actual presidential election in november 2016. so, assuming that lindsey graham is the republican nominee for president in 2016, hah! he will spend the next 500 or so days campaigning for that office. this is not normal. i mean, it s become normal, but it shouldn t be normal. it s not globally normal. the washington post had a great chart today, showing just how not normal this is, at least compared to our closest allies in the democratic world. compared to, say, how it works in the uk, which just had their big elections yesterday. in the uk this year, they dissolved parliament on march 30th, which is the first step toward having an election. candidates filed to run for office in the several da