Q: One of your major initiatives as party chairman has been to change the primary calendar.

Actually, the primary calendar is quite representative of America's diversity.

The season had an over-before-it-started feel, in part because of the Democrats' frenetic primary calendar.

The current primary calendar has been designed by national Democratic leaders as a juggernaut.

The Illinois stop was particularly important because of the primary calendar.

The primary calendar - and, potentially, the relative influence of the states - is still very much in flux.

But because of a quirk in the primary calendar, today is not the Republican finale.

Michigan had tried to end the two states' positions at the front of the primary calendar.

They face a war-haunted future where the only certainty is the primary calendar's call to intraparty combat.

It should not be forgotten that the first state in the deep south on the primary calendar has a habit of picking the establishment candidate.