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Article: Calendar whirl: new Hampshire loses pride of place. But what will change accomplish?(THE DEMOCRATS)(Democratic National Committee's (DNC) Commission on Presidential Nomination Timing and Scheduling)
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- The American Prospect
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- January 1, 2006
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THEY MAY BE A BIT RUSTY AT WINNING presidential elections, but Democrats haven't lost an ounce of their storied devotion to mucking with party procedures. On December 10, assorted party bigwigs assembled in a cavernous ballroom at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill for the fifth and final meeting of the Democratic National Committee's (DNC) Commission on Presidential Nomination Timing and Scheduling.
Co-chaired by North Carolina Congressman David Price and former Labor Secretary Alexis Herman, it marked the latest in a seemingly endless line of blue-ribbon Democratic reform commissions tasked over the last 35 years with forging a more democratic and ...