Can We Use Ink Now?

After weeks and months of changes, leap-frogging, legislation and court battles, it looks as if the 2008 primary schedule may finally get to use ink. The Michigan Supreme Court ruled that the state can go ahead with the planned January 15th primary.

Michigan’s Jan. 15 presidential primary can go forward, the state Supreme Court decided Wednesday, keeping alive the state’s bid to be one of the 2008 campaign’s first contests.

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In its 4-1 decision Wednesday, the Michigan Supreme Court overturned lower court rulings that said the law setting up the primary was unconstitutional because it would let the state political parties keep track of voters’ names and whether they took Democratic or GOP primary ballots but withhold that information from the public.

That must have been the news that New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner was waiting to hear.

New Hampshire Secretary of State William Gardner called the Associated Press today “to say he would announce the date of New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation presidential primary sometime after 3:30 p.m. (ET),” the wire service reports.

I haven’t seen anything on this yet, but will continue to watch. The USA Today article linked above suggests that, “Most observers are betting Gardner will choose Jan. 8.”

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