Could it, by chance, have anything to do with election calendars?

The election calendar is holding and presidential elections will take place Nov. 29.

Under the tight election calendar, the last day for filing appeal notices was also the first day the board conducted hearings.

On May 4 the election calendar for the early election has been put forward.

This is about the time in the presidential election calendar when anyone from state parties to third-grade classes starts taking straw polls.

But now there is a growing concern that this final plan was entirely driven by the election calendar.

It is remarkably early in the election calendar for such events.

The latest party rules have state organizations elbowing one another for the earliest positions on the election calendar.

Congress should approve this forthwith, and the Bush administration should stop trying to schedule the panel's work with one eye on the election calendar.

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