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Once again the New Hampshire "First in the Nation" Primary is in jeopardy of losing it's status - but this time it looks even more dangerous. In an attempt to give states with a higher minority population a larger say, a National Democratic Party Commission will come out with a report on Saturday recommending its schedule of 2008 calendar that would put a few extra caucuses between the "First in the Nation" Iowa Caucus and the "First in the Nation" New Hampshire Primary. Today on the Exchange we'll examine this report, how serious it may be to the New Hampshire Primary and what New Hampshire Democrats and Republicans plan to do next. Laura's guests are Dante Scala, Associate Professor of Politics at Saint Anselm College, author of "Stormy Weather: The New Hampshire Primary and Presidential Politics" and editor of the political blog GRANITEPROF. Senator Lou D'Allesandro, New Hampshire Democratic Senator from Manchester. Rep. Jim Splaine, State Representative of Portsmouth and Newington, who sponsored 1975 and 1999 legislation that required New Hampshire to be first. Dan Kemmis, Former Mayor of Missoula, and a former Speaker and Minority Leader of the Montana House of Representatives. Dan Kemmis is currently a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Rocky Mountain West at the University of Montana and a leading advocate for an early primary in a western state. Warren Henderson, New Hampshire Republican State Committee Chairman and TBA.