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Different Republicans look at this from different points of view on these two. A lot of Republicans look at Petro and see him as a better manager. But Blackwell has the hard-core conservatives and they are the ones who turn out in primaries. It's a tough choice.

John Becker

It's interesting to note that John Kerry refused to debate John Edwards one-on-one during the Democratic primaries and now he's the big proponent of debates.

Taylor Griffin

Farce compared to U.S. primaries.

Silvio Berlusconi

Randy Daniels believes primaries are good for the Republican Party and for democracy.

Robert Ryan

Early primaries are abysmal. Governor Ehrlich believes we should encourage voter turnout, not change the rules to stifle voter turnout.

Henry Fawell

We will indeed have a number of contested primaries. I don't think that's a bad thing for the Republicans, to have some spirited contests.

Randy Frederick

Some people do not want democracy. (However) we are determined to have these primaries today.

Ahmed Abdel Rahman

In this business, the primaries are light years away, ... This is going to be looked at really as just a glitch on the radar screen, and an insignificant glitch at that, once people really begin to focus on the 2000 race.

Mark Grossman

Bill and Hillary Clinton have one central idea in their uncluttered, ambitious minds: Hillary in 2008. Let Bush get re-elected, use the '04 primaries and general election to clean out the underbrush of competing Democratic candidates, and proceed unimpeded to the '08 nomination.

Dick Morris

Primaries are never a given.

Mark Larson

What they are doing is they are killing democracy and the primaries.

Kadoura Fares

In some sense, we hate primaries, and that's why you had Ron Reagan's 11th Commandment. When we have an internal fight, it tends to be a little bloodier, and that's the nature of the beast.

Terry Barnich

These odd year elections just don't draw that much attention from people, and we only had four places with primaries, ... A lot of people only vote in the general election.

Bill Varney

I personally don't think it's helpful to have primaries when you're running against an incumbent.

Cliff Wilson

Gore is still in pretty good position for the primaries. But people are still fretting about his general election numbers.

Bill Carrick

It depends on how you count. If you have 80 billion of what we call primaries, and you have 25 percent in multiple stars, then about 20 billion red dwarfs are in these binary systems, but another 60 billion are single. It's not often appreciated how numerous they are, but they are the most numerous of all stars.

Charles Lada

The problem with the Carter-Baker Commission is exactly the problem with the National Association of Secretaries of State, ... We're both bipartisan and there's nothing bipartisan about scheming for presidential primaries.

William Galvin

Holding early primaries is a technical matter, not an ousting, .

Limor Livnat

Clearly the Democratic primaries have started early, and there appears to be a division within the party over class warfare.

Claire Buchan

What Ma should do now is not get involved. He should take the chance to establish a nomination mechanism and allow the primaries to decide the final candidate.

Emile Sheng

Iowa has become not just a state important in the primaries, but important to the general election.

Elaine Kamarck