After a panel inside the Democratic National Committee approved a new presidential primary calendar two weeks ago, that was the easy part. If the full DNC approves the plan, actually implementing the changes will be more challenging.
Bernard Fraga, a political science professor at Emory University in Atlanta, says a seismic shift in the nominating calendar has big rewards for those who would end up earlier than the rest of the country.
Fraga says Georgia becoming an earlier state would bring increased investment of political and financial capital in a state that's no stranger to electoral attention, not to mention more press attention and heightened profiles for surrogates who live in the state and Democratic lawmakers.
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