11.   A New Mexican candidate for Secretary of Indian Affairs says the nominating process has ground to a halt.

12.   Adams said he thought the nominating process, long criticized as being stained by politics, should be revamped.

13.   Absentee participants will join in the nominating process via phone or possibly by mail.

14.   Across the nation, states have thrown the traditional nominating process into disarray, by jockeying primary schedules to give them more influence in the process.

15.   After the Iowa caucuses, the nominating process explodes into a more open phase.

16.   But in an effort to play an even more decisive role in the nominating process, California moved its primary into early March along with other populous states.

17.   But its nominating process is weird, perhaps uncontrollable and certainly incomprehensible in traditional political terms.

18.   But the Christian Coalition now has a major say in the Republican nominating process.

19.   But the voters deserve better than a nominating process that is over before they have a chance to think about whom they want in the race.