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The following year, he lost in the 2002 Democratic primary.

He was with him in the days leading up to the California primary.

The average age of those who lost in the Democratic primary is 57.

All the states should hold primaries on the same day.

As a result, primaries are where the big money is spent.

He is running again in the Democratic primary for the 2010 election.

A special primary will be held on August 13, 2013.

All primaries, in every state, should happen at the same time.

This should not be the case in primaries as well.

She said it would be her first vote in a Republican primary.

It will be the last major test before the primaries next year.

This year's Presidential primary was the first ever held here.

From where else would such a great golden primary have come?

So whatever the date of the next California primary, the state has a problem.

Now, she said, they will have to deal with it again, at least through the primaries.

The two plan to face each other in the Democratic primary for governor.

That made him the financial leader in the Democratic primary.

He said officials followed the same practice for the primaries.

But the men have found a common agenda in the Democratic primary.

But, for now, few Republicans are looking beyond the primaries.

This has not been the case in recent Democratic primaries.

He ran against a plant the Republican primary in 2000.

In 1986 and 1990, she won the Republican primary for governor.

One in four primaries have no male teachers at all.

Read the next page to find out how primaries work.

The special election took the form of an open primary.

Approximately 140 people turned up for the open primary meeting.

But either way, he said, the party would do whatever it took to conduct an open primary.

I don't believe the open primary system is a democratic process.

He was selected at an open primary in December 2006.

Because of the open primary, Wisconsin is a difficult state to poll.

The open primary could be seen as good for voter participation.

There is a campaign within that party to have open primaries for said candidate.

On 25 October 2009 more than 3 million voters turned out to vote in an open primary.

"Wisconsin was the only open primary, and you saw a very large number of Republicans come over to vote," he said.

Three of the six parties protested the system, but none asked to keep an open primary.

While some of the states ahead have open primaries, like Michigan's, others allow only party members to vote.

Louisiana has an open primary in which a winner, from any party, must get 50 percent of the vote.

It was an open primary with 72 delegates at stake.

Holding an open primary was proof that he is changing the party.

In the open primary, voters, and not the party structure, pick the candidates.

Election officials say changes are surprising because California recently went to an open primary system, making party registration less important.

They argued that the open primary system conflicted with Federal law.

In 1998, he won an open primary with 54% of the vote.

Both men said they agree with the outcome of the ruling: more open primary elections.

As a Republican district leader, I would like to see an open primary.

Louisiana has an unusual open primary in which candidates of both parties run together.

This typical advantage will likely be affected by the new open primary system in some manner.

On 11 August open primary elections will be held to determine the nominations.

All voters can take part in an open primary and may cast votes on a ballot of any party.

This is three or four days before a primary election.

The state's last state primary election was held on September 12, 2006.

The special primary election was held on April 11, 2006.

The necessary primary elections were held on May 17, 2011.

The special primary elections took place on March 19, 2013.

The party primary elections were held on June 8, 2010.

As before, the situation was to be resolved through a primary election.

The primary election that year occurred on May 20, 1980.

The primary elections took place on 13 and 14 December 2008.

A primary election in May was seen by many as a referendum on his plan.

During his last primary election in 1975, he carried less than half the black vote.

Most members are elected every two years in the Republican primary election by county.

Instead, she was upset for the second time in the past three primary elections.

Still, the primary election has left many Democrats with cases of nerves.

It was the first competitive Republican primary election in the state's history.

The Democrats were the only party with a contested primary election.

The primary election was to have been conducted on February 4, 2006.

Weiss died three days before the state's Democratic primary election.

Ohio has decided to change its primary election to March, along with several other states.

Under the law, candidates could not raise new money more than a year before the primary election.

In a sense, it's one-third of a national primary election.

But any other candidate who gets at least 20 percent can force a primary election, to be held in September.

The statewide primary election took place on August 24, 2010.

He won the primary election with 64.9 percent of the vote and made health care his top campaign priority.

The primary election was originally to be held in October 2006.