Another Democratic battle...
The Democratic National Committee is expected to vote this weekend on the 2008 primary schedule. For those who haven't been following this dispute, the DNC wants to add a couple of states to the early schedule, including another caucus after Iowa but before the New Hampshire primary. The early betting is that Nevada will get the nod - a western state that caucuses so as to appease New Hampshire, leaving it as the nation's first primary.
But New Hampshire folks are not appeased and have been banging the drum if any state is added to the schedule before they vote. By state Constitution, the Secretary of the State can set the New Hampshire primary date whenever he/she wants to - and they are threatening to do just that, even if it meant moving the primary to late 2007.
What's the big fuss? Slipping a new state into the schedule between Iowa and New Hampshire would mean candidates would have to cut back on the time spent in those two states in order to woo the caucus members in Nevada. That idea isn't to anyone's liking in New Hampshire.
But New Hampshire folks are not appeased and have been banging the drum if any state is added to the schedule before they vote. By state Constitution, the Secretary of the State can set the New Hampshire primary date whenever he/she wants to - and they are threatening to do just that, even if it meant moving the primary to late 2007.
What's the big fuss? Slipping a new state into the schedule between Iowa and New Hampshire would mean candidates would have to cut back on the time spent in those two states in order to woo the caucus members in Nevada. That idea isn't to anyone's liking in New Hampshire.
posted by Ray Hackett at 3:12 PM
1 Comments:
I'd love to see Connecticut become the "first in the nation." Sadly, it won't happen in my lifetime.
One of the great things about New Hampshire and the presidential election is that it is the ONLY state where real retail politics is played out. Once you get past New Hampshire, it all becomes staged events, orchestraed rallies, press conferences and 30-second sound bites.
New Hampshire is the only place where you can find some of the most powerful people in government sitting on metal folding chairs in church basement talking to two or three people at a time, trying to convince them they should be the next leader of the free world.
What's not to like about that?
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