The national Republican Party’s efforts to avoid the super-early caucus and primary contests that occurred for both parties in the 2008 cycle — when the Iowa caucuses were held just three days into the new year, and the New Hampshire primary five days after that — are being up-ended by a state that has driven much of the hard-line national conservative agenda in recent years: Arizona.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=107264