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This weekend, the DNC's rules committee meets to put the final touches on its plan for the 2008 nominating calendar. Word is that a western state or Washington DC's caucus will be placed between Iowa's "First in the Nation" caucus and New Hampshire's "First in the Nation" primary, and a southern state's primary will be placed right after New Hampshire's. Still, that's not the end of the story for New Hampshire, only the beginning, as talk of moving New Hampshire's primary up, even before Iowa's "First in the Nation" caucus is being considered. We'll look at the possibilities of the new DNC primary calendar, its effect on our own primary and what Democratic leaders plan to do to save the tradition of our "First in the Nation" status. Laura's guests are Dante Scala, Associate Professor of Politics at Saint Anselm College and author of "Stormy Weather: The New Hampshire Primary and Presidential Politics. He also writes a political blog called GRANITEPROF. Representative Jim Splaine, State Representative of Portsmouth and Newington, who sponsored 1975 and 1999 legislation that required New Hampshire to be First in the Nation Primary. Jim Splaine writes about politics for a blog for the NH Insider. We'll also be joined by Ken Rudin, Political Editor for National Public radio and writer of the Political Junkie column for NPR.org. David Yepsen, Political Columnist for the Des Moines Register and Kari Chisholm, A Political Reporter in Portland, Oregon and Publisher of the WesternDemocrat.com, A website used to promote the Western United State's political influence.