Oops, They Did it Again-Democrats Caucus Changes Won't Change Things

Now we know how desperate the Democrats are getting. in case you missed it, here is the AP story regarding changes in the primary and caucuses.
CHICAGO (AP) - Democrats shook up tradition on Saturday by vaulting Nevada and South Carolina into the first wave of 2008 presidential contests along with Iowa and New Hampshire - a move intended to add racial and geographic diversity to the early voting.
The decision by the Democratic National Committee leaves Iowa as the nation's first presidential caucus and New Hampshire as the first primary, but wedges Nevada's caucuses before New Hampshire and South Carolina's primary soon afterward.
The move also packs all four state contests into a politically saturated two weeks in January. The change means a potentially huge cast of Democratic presidential candidates could winnow quickly by the beginning of February.
Party officials embraced the change, though New Hampshire Democrats joined several likely presidential candidates and former President Clinton in opposing the move.
So waht does it mean, at first glance, what it means is they are more interested in getting conservative democrats from the west involved to help the usually liberal party appeal to the forgotten wing of the party.
What will happen is about half that. First of all, caucuses are controled by the party faithful, so the liberals, who still have a strangle hold on the dems, will nominate someone in the west, who will be PERCEIVED as a more conservative candidate--after all he or she won a western caucus.
Nope, but don't tell them that.
And will this merely increase the amount of money taht viable candidates are required to spend? Yes.
Does the decesion make sense, not much.