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The Nation
by John Nichols

01/28/08

Hillary Clinton has decided to rewrite the rules of the race for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. Like other candidates, she pledged not to campaign in Florida after the state jumped ahead on the schedule of caucuses and primaries set by the Democratic National Committee. She had to make that pledge if she hoped to compete in the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses and the first-in-the-nation New Hampshire primary, as Iowa and New Hampshire zealously guard their starting status on the political calendar. But Iowa and New Hampshire are history and, after a landslide loss in South Carolina on Saturday, Clinton needs a win. So she has begun appearing in Florida in anticipation of Tuesday’s Democratic primary there...

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