(From the diaries. I'll definitely have thoughts on this once I digest the details -- kos)
For all those waiting to see how the primary calendar would change based on the infamous primary re-vamp commission, here's the latest:
Saturday Oct 1, 2005. Associated Press
Dems to Add Contests to 2008 Calendar
Democrats trying to change their party's presidential primary for 2008 agreed Saturday to allow at least two other states to join Iowa and New Hampshire in voting during the opening days of the nominating campaign.
That expansion, debated before a commission considering changes in the primary calendar, is intended to provide more racial and geographic diversity to an opening process now dominated by Iowa and New Hampshire. Those states, representing about 1.5 percent of the country's population, have residents who are mostly white.
The additional states, expected to be named later, were likely to include a smaller state from the South and a smaller state from the Southwest or West.
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