Rhode Island lawmakers, in a bid to make their tiny state matter in presidential politics, voted Tuesday to move the state's presidential primary up to Feb. 5, joining 22 other states.
Feeling pressure from other states rushing to the beginning of the primary calendar, Iowa Democrats voted to move their leadoff precinct caucuses to Jan. 3.
Iowa Democratic Party officials are poised to settle on Jan. 3 for their presidential caucuses, the same day Republicans will vote, a party official said Thursday.
Michigan's presidential primary took a legal hit Wednesday when a lawsuit was filed asking a judge to keep the Jan. 15 contest from going forward until questions about access to voting records are resolved.
New Hampshire's secretary of state dropped two hints Thursday about the coming presidential primary: He won't make a decision about scheduling it until after Nov. 2, and the first-in-the-nation contest could very well be held in December.
Tentative schedule for presidential primaries and caucuses from January through March 2008:
Iowa Republicans on Tuesday moved their presidential caucuses ahead to Jan. 3 and said they would not push the contest into December, even if another state tries to jump ahead.
South Carolina Democrats decided Tuesday to seek permission to move their presidential primary to Jan. 26, three days earlier than currently scheduled.
Michigan Democrats want the Democratic National Committee to explain how it would respond if New Hampshire moves up its primary date.
Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton said it would be foolish to take her name off Michigan's primary ballot and sacrifice her chances against the Republican nominee.
The political heat on William Gardner — the single official with the most control over the presidential primary calendar — has never been hotter.
Five Democratic candidates have withdrawn from Michigan's Jan. 15 presidential primary, leaving what amounts to a beauty contest for front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton and a handful of lesser-knowns.
Congressional Democrats from Florida sued their own party Thursday, hoping to restore the national convention delegates stripped from the state because it scheduled an early presidential primary.
South Carolina Democrats will decide within two weeks whether to ask national party leaders to move the state's presidential primary to Jan. 19 and make it the party's first contest in the South.
The Florida Democratic Party will stick with a Jan. 29 presidential primary even if it means losing all its nominating convention delegates, a party source said Saturday.
The Michigan legislature on Thursday approved moving the state's presidential nomination contests to Jan. 15, just days after national Democrats vowed to punish states that vote too early.
Florida Democrats would forfeit their votes in selecting a presidential nominee unless they delay their state election by at least a week, the national party said in a stern action Saturday meant to discourage others from leapfrogging ahead to earlier dates.
The Michigan Senate voted Wednesday to move the state's presidential nomination contests to Jan. 15, further roiling an already turbulent nomination schedule that has raised the possibility of voting before New Year's.
Gov. Janet Napolitano has decided to move up Arizona's presidential primary by three weeks to Feb. 5, joining at least 19 other states with primaries or caucuses on that date.
Gov. Charlie Crist signed a bill Monday moving Florida's 2008 presidential primary up to Jan. 29, leapfrogging several other states in a change that could dramatically alter the Republican and Democratic presidential nominating campaigns.
Oscar Goodman, a former mob lawyer and self-proclaimed "happiest mayor in the world," breezed to a third term as mayor of Las Vegas.
California jolted the time-tested presidential primary schedule Thursday, moving up its 2008 contest to Feb. 5 and setting the stage for a potentially decisive one-day, mega-primary across the country.
Bill Gardner is a modest man with an awesome power: the ability to set the date of the nation's earliest presidential primary.
A record low primary turnout and voter disgust for politics could spell trouble for Republicans trying to keep control of the House and Senate.
Republicans picked a party-backed state senator Thursday to replace embattled U.S. Rep. Bob Ney, who dropped out of the congressional race amid a corruption scandal.