R. Lawrence Butler offers this Roll Call commentary (paid subscription required), which begins: “Former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker III, co-chairmen of the Commission on Federal Election Reform, are right to decry the frontloading of the presidential primary system (‘Time to Reform the Presidential Primary System,; Dec. 5, 2005). Unfortunately, their proposed solution of four regional primaries at one-month intervals after Iowa and New Hampshire would only institutionalize the problem, not fix it.”