Salt Lake Tribune: "It is too bad that the argument over whether other states should join with Utah, Arizona and New Mexico in holding an early-season presidential primary has been cast so much in terms of dollars and cents. Because it should be about votes and democracy...adding Montana and Idaho to the Western States Primary - and, dare we dream, Colorado - would make it more attractive to candidates, and thus more useful to the voters of the whole region. The point is that the traditional first-in-the-nation contests - Iowa's Jan. 14 caucuses and New Hampshire's Jan. 22 primary election - may charm the national media as examples of retail politics played out in living rooms and diners. But both contests focus on small constituencies that, however great their charm, are not representative of the nation as a whole."
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