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- GRAPEVINE, Page 13The Golden State's Bid For Electoral Primacy
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- By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
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- California politicians are planning to move up their
- state's primary date from June to March in an attempt to muscle
- in on the kingmaking power Iowa and New Hampshire enjoy during
- presidential-election years. An early-bird contest would be
- likely to force Democratic candidates to give short shrift to
- the two smaller states so contenders could focus on California's
- wide-ranging constituencies and demonstrate national appeal.
- Willie Brown, Democratic speaker of the California assembly,
- hopes to schedule the primary on the first Tuesday in March,
- which would position it just a week before the "Super Tuesday"
- group of Southern primaries.
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- Brown disputes the current notion that few Democrats are
- willing to run against George Bush next year. The local party
- says it has received feelers from Senators Bill Bradley of New
- Jersey, Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia and Tom Harkin of Iowa,
- as well as Virginia Governor Doug Wilder and Jesse Jackson.
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