But last August, the New Hampshire secretary of state indicated he was going to schedule his state's primary before the date specified, clearly defying the sequence and timing the party had set.
His status as public jester, good-timing party-crasher, and Waldo-like impresario surely tells us things about Web culture, contemporary celebrity, and the ways in which people prefer their famous people to be both generous and too cool to care.
He wrote in the New York Post this week that the contract articulated a vision that already prevailed among Republicans, whereas De Blasio is picking a fight within his own party, timing the effort to influence Clinton as she develops her agenda.
The regulatory agencies' examination schedules are likely to drive the process, not the parties' timing needs.
But other Democrats questioned the governor's, and his party's, timing.
Programming comes naturally to Eric, but social relations do not: he tries to parse human interaction like lines of code, timing his movements at parties down to the minute.
Soon after the party, they started timing their morning swims at Trinity to coincide.
The plan says the initial steps must begin "immediately". But the parties disagree about timing.
