First Presidential Votes May Be Cast In 2007

Washington Wire:

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 join with New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner tomorrow morning to announce that both states are moving up their presidential primary dates earlier into January, according to a prominent South Carolina Republican who spoke with Dawson this week. That likely will force Iowa -- always protective of its party caucuses as the first-in-the-nation nominating contests -- to make good on its vow to move their date from next Jan. 14 into pre-Christmas December.

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