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Article: Bye-bye primaries.(Editorials)(Citing costs, several states drop elections)(Editorial)

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The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
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November 16, 2003
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First, the good news. Oregon will conduct its quadrennial presidential primary on May 18 next year, even though the nominees of the two major parties, certainly on the Republican side, will probably be settled by then.

But the presidential primary has always been mostly a sideshow to the state's regular primary - also scheduled for May 18 - that will decide party nominees for state and local offices and other issues.

Now, the bad news. Several states - Colorado, Kansas, Utah, Maine, New Mexico and Washington - have either decided to abandon their presidential primaries or are considering such a move.

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