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Democratic panel keeps Iowa caucuses first

By THOMAS BEAUMONT •  January 6, 2010


The Iowa caucuses will remain the first event of the presidential nomination sequence in 2012, if the Democratic National Committee adopts recommendations of a panel that studied changes prompted by the epic 2008 campaign.

"There was no serious challenge in my view to Iowa being first," Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller, the lone Iowan on the 36-member commission, said Tuesday at a news conference.

Iowa would be able to hold caucuses no earlier than Feb. 1, 2012, followed by the New Hampshire primary, caucuses in Nevada and the South Carolina primary. The proposal is set to be reviewed by the DNC's rules and bylaws committee and later the entire committee this year.

Other states would be barred from holding their events until March 1. However, the commission did nothing to address what Miller called the "somewhat unsolvable" problem of states violating the schedule.


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In 2008, Clinton had the support of most superdelegates, which forced Obama to lobby them heavily.

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