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<text id=91TT1224>
<title>
June 03, 1991: The Golden State's Bid For Electora
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
June 03, 1991 Date Rape
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
GRAPEVINE, Page 13
The Golden State's Bid For Electoral Primacy
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<p>By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
</p>
<p> 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.
</p>
<p> 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.
</p>
</body></article>
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