Iowa Governor Wants January Caucuses (NYT blog)

[Eugene]

Source: NYT/The Caucus Blog

August 10, 2007, 1:06 pm
Iowa Governor Wants January Caucuses

By Jeff Zeleny

DES MOINES – The 2008 presidential campaign should start
– and finish – in 2008.

That’s the view of Gov. Chet Culver of Iowa, who pledged
today to do everything he could to keep the Iowa caucuses,
which traditionally kick off the nominating process, from being
held in December.

As he walked into the Capitol today, Mr. Culver carried a copy
of The Des Moines Register, which had a front-page banner
headline: “December caucuses a possibility.”

In an interview, Mr. Culver said he would do whatever he could
to prevent the race from starting that early.

“We’re not going in December,” he said. “It just doesn’t make
sense.”

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Read more: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/10/iowa-governor-wants-january-caucuses

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Source: Associated Press

Iowa Governor Wants Caucuses in January

Friday August 10, 2007 9:16 PM

By MIKE GLOVER

Associated Press Writer

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Iowa's Democratic governor said Friday
the state's presidential caucuses should be held in January 2008,
rejecting suggestions that the rush to move up primaries should
push the contests into December.

“In this state, we're going to still have Christmas,” Gov. Chet
Culver said at a news conference. “We're very firm in the fact
that we're going to have the caucuses in January. To go into
2007 makes no sense at all.”

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Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-6841570,00.html

[BOSSHOG]

1. this getting earlier crap is ridiculous

Hell we might as well start having primaries the month after the elections. And I thinks it pretty damned arrogant of New Hampshirites to insist they have to be first. Is that in the constitution somewhere.

[David__77]

2. If it's early enough it will become irrelevant.

So, what, a couple of states could hold their primaries now even, but then things could radically change in several months. It would become farcical.