FLASHPOINT for Mar 16, 2007

Friday, March 16, 2007 | 6:56 a.m.

George Will this week lamented the compression of the presidential selection process: "... Democrats decided that the Almighty's purposes would be better served by inserting between Iowa (population 3 million) and New Hampshire (1.3 million) some caucuses in Clark County, Nev. Technically, the caucuses are in all of Nevada (2.5 million), but outside of Clark County ... where about 70 percent of Nevadans live, the state is mostly federally owned land (91 percent) and sheep and other quadrupeds. Were Nevada to try to have a primary before New Hampshire, that irritable state might move its primary up to this May." So what about Will's short shrift to Reno and the rurals? Are they sheep, too?

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