HEIGHTEN THE CONTRADICTIONS! Now that Michigan may be moving its primary to January 15th, causing New Hampshire to move to, at the latest, the 8th and Iowa to move into December, it's worth noting that, crazy as this is, it has an upside. The runaway rush to be the first is unsustainable, having the ultimate effect of making the case for systematic reform, be it federal legislation or stricter party rules, irrefutable. After all, is there anyone who thinks Iowans voting in December of 2007 is a good thing? Of course I could be wrong and Iowans might be voting in July of 2011, but I think that probably won't happen. Breaking the current system is almost certainly the only way to achieve a sensible system in the future -- one where we don't start with two of the whitest states in the union and where we don't pick candidates a year before the election. Therefore I, for one, welcome our new December primaries.
--Sam Boyd
