New Hampshire Primary

More from PolitickerNH.com: NH Party Chairs disagree on whether NH Primary 'worked'

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- At a Harvard symposium today New Hampshire's two political party leaders disagreed over the question whether the past New Hampshire Primary "worked".

New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner will be hosting a forum on the presidential nominating process.

The forum takes place tomorrow at Saint Anselm College's New Hampshire Institute of Politics at 1:00pm.

Gardner will be joined by Secretaries of State from Rhode Island, Iowa and Nevada.

The New Hampshire primary seems to never end.

On Friday, April 18th the Ballot Law Commission will hear an appeal to the Republican primary recount.

Presidential candidate Albert Howard, who also had requested the recount, is challenging the recount results, again.

Senatorial candidate Jeanne Shaheen (D-Madbury) has created a joint political action committee with U.S. Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC).

The PAC is called Democratic Victory 2008 and was formed on March 28th.

Levin has been a vocal opponent of the New Hampshire primary and threatened to hold Michigan's primary the same day as New Hampshire's.

At the time of this posting, the Shaheen campaign had not returned an e-mail requesting comment.

The Rules Committee of the Republican National Committee has adopted a plan that would preserve New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation primary status.

By a vote of 28 to 12, the committee passed the "Ohio plan" that would allow New Hampshire to be the first primary state and specifies that South Carolina follow New Hampshire.

"This is an important first step in the process of preserving our first in the nation primary. There is broad consensus that our Republican nominating process has worked well, and the way John McCain earned our nomination is prima facia evidence of that," Fergus Cullen, Chairman of New Hampshire Republicans, said in a statement.

Speaking before a Nevada Democratic group, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) criticized the New Hampshire primary.

The Rev. Al Sharpton has sided with New Hampshire over whether or not the Democratic National Committee should seat delegates from Florida and Michigan at the National Convention in Denver.

In a letter to DNC Chairman Howard Dean, Sharpton said "I firmly believe that changing the rules now, and seating delegates from Florida and Michigan at this point would not only violate the Democratic party's rules of fairness, but also would be a grave injustice."