2012 primary calendar: Arizona starts the party
The 2012 presidential primary calendar is about to gel.
This Saturday is the deadline for Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) to decide whether to move up her state’s primary to January. That decision represents what could be the first shoe to drop in another “front-loading” of the primary calendar that could include contests right after the New Year or even in December 2011.
But Arizona isn’t the only state threatening to crash the presidential party. In fact, there’s plenty of reason to believe some other states could advance their primaries as well.
To help you sort through it all, we’ve prepared a (semi) brief primer of what to watch as the states pick their primary dates.