Both the Republican and Democratic parties have been accelerating the timetable for the presidential nominating process.
"I think it's good that we go deep in the nominating process, " Dean said.
Instead of a now-you-see-it-now-you-don't approach, the parties should make the presidential nominating process more deliberate, more inclusive.
Instead of a now-you-see-it-now-you-don't approach, the parties should make the presidential nominating process more delib-erate, more inclusive.
"This is still a more open nominating process than anyone in the elite media believes, " Gingrich argued.
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He urged his supporters to remain active in the nominating process but has not endorsed any remaining candidate.
Also, both presidential candidates are on record saying Iowa and New Hampshire should lead off the presidential-nominating process.
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This reform may prolong the primary season itself but not the nominating process.
The point is that voters can meet candidates if they want to, and it's critically important that our nominating process retain that.
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Those groups have backed Mr. Romney disproportionately throughout the GOP nominating process.
What hasn't changed is that the early states in the nominating process serve a national purpose by reducing the presidential race to a human scale.
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"There's no way Hans is making it through, " says one lawyer close to the nominating process who requested anonymity because his practice involves FEC matters.
She'll travel next weekend to Iowa and later to New Hampshire, two kickoff states for the Democratic presidential nominating process in 2008, according to her campaign organizers.
In putting together the list, our nominating process, so to speak, was to look at all films released in calendar year 2008 culled from box-office reporting service Box Office Mojo.
That way more Americans could participate in the nominating process.
Not surprisingly, in a poll stretching back eight months, it turns out that the level of voter interest closely paralleled the relative importance of a state's primary or caucuses in the nominating process.
To be sure, no delegates were at stake in any of the contests in Colorado or Minnesota, and the Missouri primary also did not give Santorum any additional support in the formal nominating process.
Remember, after all, that the Oscars had to reconfigure the nominating process because of voting shenanigans by members trying to heavily skew the ballots in favor of their top choices and against other options.
But some of the steps that have made him popular in New Jersey could present hurdles in a presidential run, where conservative Republicans are influential in many of the states that vote early in the nominating process.
Also at play this year were changes to the nominating process, which the academy has been tweaking in recent years to try to cultivate a field of nominees that reflects both commercial tastes and the filmmaking community's proclivities.
When New Hampshire does set a date, it will be one of the final and arguably most influential pieces of a calendar that has been thrown into chaos as more states try to influence significantly the presidential nominating process.
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But really the issue here now for this campaign is just about accumulating some delegates, not finishing first, maybe not finishing second, just getting a few delegates maybe in South Carolina, enough to have some kind of input on the nominating process of the Democratic convention.
This threat can be largely alleviated by tightening up the process for nominating new species, and can be accomplished without legislation.
At some point our society is going to be forced to choose between allowing this ongoing abuse of the ESA and paying the ever-increasing economic and societal price, or modifying the process of nominating species in a way that requires the employment of sound science, the consideration of economic and other societal impacts, and returns the law to its original, balanced intent.
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