Democrats Agree to Expand Early Primaries
Democrats trying to change their party’s presidential primary for 2008 agreed to allow at least two other states to join Iowa and New Hampshire in voting during the opening days of the nominating campaign.
That expansion, debated before a commission considering changes in the primary calendar, is intended to provide more racial and geographic diversity to an opening process now dominated by Iowa and New Hampshire. Those states, representing about 1.5% of the country’s population, have residents who are mostly white.
The additional states, expected to be named later, were likely to include a smaller state from the South and a smaller state from the Southwest or West.
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