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Lawmakers Still Don't Like Earlier Primary
The aura of having Barack Obama on an election ballot is apparently over.

The Illinois Senate has approved a measure to return the primary election date back to where it was before Obama ran for president. Starting in 1970, the primary had been scheduled, according to law, for the third Tuesday in March. But Democrats moved the date in 2007 to the first Tuesday in February so that Illinois could help catapult Obama into the White House in 2008.

The sponsor of the bill to return to March, State Sen. Deanna Demuzio (D-Carlinville), says it's clear that the primary came too early this year, leaving voters uninterested in the election during the holidays. Republicans voted for the measure, but say that's because they didn't approve of moving the primary in the first place.

(Illinois Radio Network)
03 01 10 by Newsroom
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