The_Elucidator
03-12-2007, 05:10 PM
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By ADAM NAGOURNEY (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/n/adam_nagourney/index.html?inline=nyt-per)
</NYT_BYLINE>Published: March 12, 2007
<NYT_TEXT>WASHINGTON, March 9 — The trickle of states moving their 2008 presidential primaries to Feb. 5 has turned into an avalanche, forcing all the presidential campaigns to reconsider every aspect of their nominating strategy — where to compete, how to spend money, when to start television advertising — as they gird for the prospect of a 20-state national primary day.
In the last two weeks, Senator John McCain (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/john_mccain/index.html?inline=nyt-per), Republican of Arizona, dispatched the director of his political action committee to run his primary campaign in California, where a bill to move the primary to Feb. 5 is on the desk of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/arnold_schwarzenegger/index.html?inline=nyt-per). John Edwards (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/e/john_edwards/index.html?inline=nyt-per), the North Carolina Democrat, announced that he had won the endorsement of Richard J. Codey, a former acting governor of New Jersey, testimony to the state’s new status as it readies to shift its primary to Feb. 5 from June.
Senator Barack Obama (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/barack_obama/index.html?inline=nyt-per), Democrat of Illinois, held a rally the other day in Texas, and aides to Rudolph W. Giuliani (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/g/rudolph_w_giuliani/index.html?inline=nyt-per), the New York Republican, said staff members would be sent to California, Florida and Missouri, as both candidates prepare for expected Feb. 5 primaries in those states.
“It’s becoming a brush fire out there,” Mr. Obama said in an interview.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/12/us/politics/12primary.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
I think it needs to be noted, especially since this was written by the NY Slimes, that this move in Primaries is in no way intended to give other states a voice in the electoral process...this is nothing more than a ploy for the 'Rats, the DBM, Moveon.org, George Soros and all the assorted 527 a chance to get in a few more months of digging up dirt and bashing the Republican candidate. Book it!
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By ADAM NAGOURNEY (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/n/adam_nagourney/index.html?inline=nyt-per)
</NYT_BYLINE>Published: March 12, 2007
<NYT_TEXT>WASHINGTON, March 9 — The trickle of states moving their 2008 presidential primaries to Feb. 5 has turned into an avalanche, forcing all the presidential campaigns to reconsider every aspect of their nominating strategy — where to compete, how to spend money, when to start television advertising — as they gird for the prospect of a 20-state national primary day.
In the last two weeks, Senator John McCain (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/john_mccain/index.html?inline=nyt-per), Republican of Arizona, dispatched the director of his political action committee to run his primary campaign in California, where a bill to move the primary to Feb. 5 is on the desk of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/arnold_schwarzenegger/index.html?inline=nyt-per). John Edwards (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/e/john_edwards/index.html?inline=nyt-per), the North Carolina Democrat, announced that he had won the endorsement of Richard J. Codey, a former acting governor of New Jersey, testimony to the state’s new status as it readies to shift its primary to Feb. 5 from June.
Senator Barack Obama (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/barack_obama/index.html?inline=nyt-per), Democrat of Illinois, held a rally the other day in Texas, and aides to Rudolph W. Giuliani (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/g/rudolph_w_giuliani/index.html?inline=nyt-per), the New York Republican, said staff members would be sent to California, Florida and Missouri, as both candidates prepare for expected Feb. 5 primaries in those states.
“It’s becoming a brush fire out there,” Mr. Obama said in an interview.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/12/us/politics/12primary.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
I think it needs to be noted, especially since this was written by the NY Slimes, that this move in Primaries is in no way intended to give other states a voice in the electoral process...this is nothing more than a ploy for the 'Rats, the DBM, Moveon.org, George Soros and all the assorted 527 a chance to get in a few more months of digging up dirt and bashing the Republican candidate. Book it!