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(Pennsylvania) State's presidential primary may be staying put
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ Apr 17, 2007 05:58am |
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| Media | Newspaper - Allentown Morning Call |
| News Date | Tuesday, April 17, 2007 11:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Allentown Morning Call article.
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"Gov. Ed Rendell appears to have cooled his enthusiasm for moving Pennsylvania's 2008 presidential primary from April to February, and that could freeze efforts to give the state a bigger say in the race for the White House.
As recently as last month, Rendell appeared on the side of moving the primary to Feb. 5, 2008, saying, ''We have no input into who's the nominee at all. Does that make any sense? The state that is one of the most important in the general election has no input in the primary.''
But in a brief interview Monday before a speech plugging his education agenda, the Democratic governor seemed less enamored with the rush-to-be-early trend.
''It is absolutely insane to have it front-loaded the way it is…It'll only be the candidates who have the huge money who can survive.''
Nine states, including California, New Jersey and New York, will hold their primaries Feb. 5. Fourteen more, including Oregon, Pennsylvania and Texas, are mulling whether to move their primaries.
With nearly half the states holding their primaries on a single day, Rendell says he fears that dark horse candidates could be cut out of the electoral process.
''You're making sure that you're never going to have a Jimmy Carter or a Bill Clinton,'' he said, adding, ''Just as an American, I think that's a lousy thing to do.''
In their respective elections in 1976 and 1992, neither Carter nor Clinton clinched the nominations until later in the primary season, said G. Terry Madonna, a political scientist and pollster at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster." |
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