Spiffy idea

I don't think I've mentioned it here before (oh yeah, here), but there's been some interesting discussion over the last year or so about rearranging the calendar of Presidential primaries and caucuses to promote a better process, e.g., to keep a pair of white Northeastern states from carrying disproportionate sway in determining who wins the major party nominations. How to rearrange it is difficult -- a smattering of different regions? of different ethnic compositions? change it once or reevaluate on some regular basis? -- and many states would fight for the honor of falling earlier (and thus giving their residents the honor of mattering more). I don't know the right answer, but the notion of letting last time's swing states go first is very intriguing. This is either the epitome of focusing on "electability," or it's a sensible way to put the energies of candidates to use in those early days where they'll be most important to the eventual race. Anyway, more fodder for the mill...