Relevance I finally took the time to take another look at the current calendar of presidential primary caucuses and elections, and as a Pennsylvanian I'm no more pleased than I was three years ago. Oh, there's been a furious flurry of repositioning, so much so that several states have dates yet to be determined. New Hampshire's petulant child statute , demanding that they be first for any primaries, means that in order to maintain that they will currently have to hold their primary in 2007 unless they decide that Wyoming's Jan 5th caucus is sufficiently outside the "similar election" phrasing of their law, which seems to be a fair assumption considering that Iowa and New Hampshire seem to each be secure in their individual stations as political bellwethers. Here's the current list as pulled from NPR's site : Updated Sept. 4, 2007: The 2008 primaries are scheduled earlier than ever, and some dates remain in flux, as states jockey to make their primaries...
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