(I'd link to the column but the Globe wants money for yesterday's opinion, which strikes me as a counterintuitive thinking)...and fair enough this is a worthwhile debate topic, from the process of front end loading primaries to the persistent centrality of the New Hampshire Primary.
That having been said, let us not forget that Scot Lehigh wants to sell newspapers and therefore a long devisive primary schedule is preferred with a divided and fractious democratic convention if possible.
Otherwise how can he and all the other pundits fill up column space in the spring of '08 with stillborn fantasies of "brokered conventions" and "late announcing candidates"?
And another thing, a long drawl out political brawl in the democratic primaries plays endlessly to Scot Lehigh's preference for some moderate republican man-on-horseback to rescue us all from those awful chaotic democrats.
A quick end and bloodless end to the selection process undercuts this vital meme.
Mind you, democracy's best interests might not be well served by a megaprimary, but don't confuse that with Scot's own personal agenda.
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