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Terri
10-10-2007, 07:48 AM
By NORMA LOVE
Associated Press
October 10, 2007

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- The political heat on William Gardner -- the single official with the most control over the presidential primary calendar -- has never been hotter.

Gardner's temperature, however, remains cool.

Gardner is the 58-year-old New Hampshire secretary of state, a man who loves history and has been the jealous keeper of his state's first-in-the-nation primary for over three decades.

National party leaders are doing a slow burn waiting for Gardner to schedule a date for the 2008 primary. So are other states' officials who will need to adjust accordingly.

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