Interesting bit on our primaries in the International Herald Tribune

[jswordy]

While talking about Dean, the IHT included this bit:

The first benchmark comes this month, when a party commission begins studying what is right and wrong about the primary process that produced John Kerry as the nominee. The helter-skelter process clearly needs fixing, starting with its overemphasis on front-loading contests. The tight calendar of winner-take-all bouts allows scant opportunity for shopper's remorse.
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One of the commission's leaders, Representative David Price of North Carolina, was right when he noted that the party "needs to provide something other than a rush to judgment." Price, a political science professor at Duke University, has been through this before, serving as director of the Hunt Commission, which helped tune up the rules in the 1980s. Now he is wise to emphasize that a more deliberative pace would hardly hurt the Democrats' next search for the strongest nominee.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/03/01/opinion/eddean.html