Reed touts progress on presidential primary reform
WA Secretary of State Sam Reed says he’s increasingly optimistic that the national Democratic and Republican parties will move the 2012 presidential primary season to later in the calendar. Reed, a national leader for presidential primary reform, said the National Association of Secretaries of State heard from party representatives last week about proposals now moving through both the Republican and Democratic national committees to address the widely-criticized “frontloading” of primaries during recent times. In 2008, for instance, the Iowa caucuses…