NH Gov would support regional presidential primary system

During an editorial board meeting at the Foster's Daily Democrat newspaper in Dover, N.H., New Hampshire Governor John Lynch said he would support a series of rotating regional presidential primaries in 2012, as long as New Hampshire and Iowa went first.

Prominent leaders in both political parties have been upset at how how states are constantly shifting primary dates this year hoping to get more clout and in the process creating a lot of confusion.

The National Association of Secretaries of State have been pushing a regional primary plan. The proposal calls for Iowa and New Hampshire to go first followed by four regional primaries that will be rotated in order every presidential cycle. Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman recently made that plan a Senate bill.