Carl Levin is right about Michigan's primary

I hate agreeing with Carl Levin, but I do agree with his disdain for New Hampshire's position in the nomination cycle. It's clearly time to start working on a Constitutional Amendment and get rid of this idiotic, backwards, 19th century primary system. What's wrong with a series of national primaries?

Levin fires new salvo in primary war
The Politico

Sen. Carl Levin, Democrat of Michigan, threatened Wednesday to hold Michigan's presidential nominating contest on the same day as the New Hampshire primary in order to end New Hampshire's "cockamamie" first-in-the-nation role.

"No state should have that dominant a role," Levin said at a breakfast with reporters. "New Hampshire has a hammerlock, folks.

While Michigan recently passed a law saying it would hold a primary on Jan. 15 - causing New Hampshire to say it would go no later than Jan. 8 - Levin said Michigan Democrats now could hold a caucus and move up to the same day as New Hampshire.

New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner told Politico, however, that he was prepared to keep New Hampshire first and once again raised the possibility he could hold the primary in December of this year.

"I moved the filing period [when candidates can register to get their names on the ballot] up so it would end Nov. 2, so we could have a primary in early December if need be," Gardner said in a phone interview Wednesday morning.