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Democrats May Shake Up Early Presidential Votes
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| Last Edited | ArmyDem Dec 07, 2005 12:52pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Los Angeles Times |
| News Date | Wednesday, December 7, 2005 06:50:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A panel could challenge the leading roles of Iowa and New Hampshire, which could give blacks and Latinos more say in picking a nominee.
December 7, 2005
Latimes.com : National News
By Ronald Brownstein, Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON — It's more than two years before the next Iowa caucuses, but the first meaningful votes in the 2008 Democratic presidential race will be cast this week.
On Saturday, a Democratic commission will decide whether to challenge the dominant role that Iowa and New Hampshire play in determining the party's presidential nominee. The panel is strongly leaning toward a plan aimed at diluting those states' influence by authorizing other contests in between Iowa's caucuses, which start the nomination race, and New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation primary.
Such a change could increase the influence of blacks and Latinos, who cast few votes in Iowa and New Hampshire, in the Democratic presidential race. And it would allow Democrats from other regions, most likely the South and Southwest, to join Iowa and New Hampshire in winnowing the field of contenders.
Rep. David E. Price (D-N.C.), the commission's co-chairman, said the panel was "fully appreciative of the value" of close contact between voters and candidates "and of the tradition Iowa and New Hampshire has developed in that area."
But, he said, "we have a second goal … which is to have an early [nominating] season that attracts wider participation from a wider range of constituencies." |
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