“It’s a perfect storm from a rate perspective,” said a GOP media buyer. “New Hampshire is already a difficult place to advertise, and it becomes even harder during the holidays.”
Put plainly: These states want to be the focus of the nation’s attention, and putting their contests anytime in December directly competes with a smattering of holidays, from Thanksgiving and Hanukkah to Christmas and New Year’s.
Second, the main reason people think things may begin in December is because New Hampshire state law requires its primary to be held seven days before any similar contest, and Iowa law requires its caucuses to be held eight days before the next contest. New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner has cited this law and said New Hampshire must be at least a week before Nevada.
Well, both of these laws have been ignored before, so who’s to say they won’t again?
Presidential votes in 2011? Probably not
