The residents of New Hampshire can finally sleep easy knowing that we still have the first presidential primary election. We decided on January 8th, the earliest date ever for a primary. For a while, people thought that we were going to have to move the date to sometime in December, which would have been unheard of.
While this is the first primary, Iowa has set the date of their causus to January 3rd, five days before New Hampshire votes. The decision was made by New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner, who had been waiting to hear what the state of Michigan was going to decide on for a primary date. This past Wednesday, November 21, Michigan decided on the date of January 15th to vote, opening the door for New Hampshire to set their date to remain the first presidential primary for the 2008 election.
Information from MSNBC.COM
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Woot-woot, New Hampshire! I'm glad that we were able to pull this off again...it would really be a shame to see NH lose its status as first in the Nation, because then we would not get the great opportunities to see the candidates the way we do now.
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