{"id":2126,"date":"2007-08-20T15:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-20T21:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/08\/michigan-will-likely-hold-its-primary-on-jan-15\/"},"modified":"2007-08-20T15:20:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-20T21:20:00","slug":"michigan-will-likely-hold-its-primary-on-jan-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/08\/michigan-will-likely-hold-its-primary-on-jan-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan will likely hold its primary on Jan. 15"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Michigan<\/st1:state> will likely holds its presidential primary on Jan. 15, jumping ahead of South Carolina<\/st1:state> and Florida<\/st1:state><\/st1:place> and tossing a new monkey wrench into the plans of presidential campaigns. <\/p>\n

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Though the deal isn\u2019t yet official, a number of news services reported over the weekend that officials from both major parties had agreed to hold their primaries that day.<\/p>\n

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For Gov. Bill Richardson<\/a>, it\u2019s bad news. He hasn\u2019t spent hardly any time in Michigan<\/st1:state><\/st1:place>, has little name recognition there and wasn\u2019t even worth mentioning in a Detroit News<\/a> article on the most recent poll conducted there.<\/p>\n

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That poll, conducted earlier this month by the newspaper and a local television station, found that, when Al Gore<\/a> was included, he was winning with 36 percent of the vote to Hillary Clinton\u2019s<\/a> 32 percent, Barack Obama\u2019s<\/a> 16 percent and John Edwards\u2019<\/a> 8 percent. Without Gore in the poll, Clinton<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> had 45 percent, Obama had 26 percent and Edwards had 16 percent.<\/p>\n

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The newspaper didn\u2019t release the totals for the other candidates in the race, including Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>.<\/p>\n

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Michigan<\/st1:state> would be the first large state to hold its primary, making Nevada<\/st1:state> \u2013 a critical state for Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> \u2013 less influential in the process. Having to compete in a large media market like Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s at such an early date makes the road harder for candidates with less money.<\/p>\n

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The move to Jan. 15 will require New Hampshire<\/st1:state>, by state law, to hold its primary on Jan. 8 or earlier and might push Iowa<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>, unless it decides to ignore its own state law, to hold its caucuses in December.<\/p>\n

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So there\u2019s a lot of uncertainty in the process right now.<\/p>\n

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Michigan<\/st1:state>\u2019s change comes after the recent decision by Florida Republicans to jump ahead of South Carolina<\/st1:state><\/st1:place>\u2019s Jan. 29 primary and hold their own on Jan. 19. That had already prompted speculation that New Hampshire<\/st1:state><\/st1:place> might hold its primary on Jan. 8, since it\u2019s tradition to hold it on Tuesday, but officials in the Granite State were leaning toward a Saturday primary on Jan. 12 to keep Iowa in January, until the news from Michigan made that illegal.<\/p>\n

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No one actually wants to push the first contests into December.<\/p>\n

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Where will this end? It\u2019s a little early to tell. What\u2019s likely is that, during their conventions next year, Democrats and Republicans will be talking about reform of the nominating systems for presidential candidates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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