Edwards' surge puts California on primary map

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http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/mon/news/news_1n23calif.html

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Whether the North Carolina senator's strong showing in the Wisconsin primary actually puts him in position to halt Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry's march to the nomination or, as most analysts believe, merely postpones the inevitable, it at least gives California a say on March 2.

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In fact, both candidates plan to spend little time and as little money as possible in California.

That's because March 2 is for all practical purposes a national primary, with 10 contests in some of the nation's most populous states, including New York, Ohio, Massachusetts, Georgia, Minnesota and Maryland. Connecticut, Rhode Island and Vermont vote that day as well.

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Neither is expected to devote much, if any, of his dwindling financial resources to television advertising in a state where an effective ad campaign can cost more than $2 million a week.

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"We're an exporting state," said Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, a political analyst at the University of Southern California. "As much as it helped Edwards in the Rust Belt states that he was against NAFTA, it could help Kerry in California that he's pro-NAFTA."

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John Marelius: [e-mail]

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1. I think Sherry needs 2 get out

more...kerry is not all that strong here. At the county dem convention - edwards was being discussed more than kerry but then kerry has never been strong out here. I voted 4 the Dr.

[Old and In the Way]

2. Really? Polling data would seem to contradict your post

http://www.dcpoliticalreport.com/2004/CAPoll.htm

as of 2/16-

Kerry 56%
Dean 11%
Edwards 10%
Clark 4%
Kucinich 4%
Sharpton 1%
other 2%
undecided 12%

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3. Baa.

[Barkley]

4. Edwards' "Two Americas' campaign theme will appeal to many in CA.