CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- At a Harvard symposium today New Hampshire's two political party leaders disagreed over the question whether the past New Hampshire Primary "worked".

"I thought it was a disaster," said Democratic Party Chair Ray Buckley. "We only had five days after Iowa and I don't think that allowed the type of retail politics we are used to."

The symposium, sponsored by the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, brought in national leaders to discuss the presidential primary calendar.

New Hampshire Republican Chair Fergus Cullen said he believed the primary did work.

"We got lucky," said Cullen. "We had a process that was open and not a lot of people dropped out afterward."

Of the approximately 50 people invited, including those from key national party committees, secretaries of state, and those challenging Iowa and New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation status, the general consensus was that while small changes might be implemented to the calendar before 2012, substantive change is almost a non-starter.