51.   States have been racing to get their primaries at the front of the calendar to enhance their impact on the nominating process.

52.   The aim, Brock told a news conference here, is to restore smaller states and their Main Street politics to their leading role in the nominating process.

53.   That may be especially true in states that come early in the nominating process, including Alaska, Louisiana, Iowa and New Hampshire.

54.   The competition between the two men grew so intense and angry that they convened separate conventions and nominating processes in adjacent convention halls.

55.   The constitutional question is whether the parties have a right under the First Amendment protection for freedom of association to exclude nonmembers from their nominating process.

56.   The crunch to get ahead, to be first in the nominating process, is compounded by states that are playing a game of me-first.

57.   The exchange said it will conduct an election for a new chairman in May after completing a nominating process.

58.   The game of leapfrog is being led by populous states tired of having so little say in the presidential nominating process.

59.   The old New Hampshire served as a yeast for the nominating process, turning up an occasional surprise and setting the tone of the debate for the primaries ahead.

60.   The nominating process seems more open, but is it?