First Presidential Votes Might Be Cast in 2007

The first 2008 presidential votes may be moving into 2007 after all, making a race that has started earlier than ever even more intense.

South Carolina Republican Party Chairman Katon Dawson will announce that he is moving its primary date ahead of Florida's Jan. 29 vote, to reclaim his state party's "first in the South" presidential-nominating banner. But he will do so in New Hampshire, home of the first-in-the-nation primary. And he will be joined by New Hampshire's longtime Secretary of State Bill Gardner, who alone has the power to set that state's date for both parties, now tentatively Jan. 22.

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