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Associated PressColorado Democrats Back Early CaucusesBy STEVEN K. PAULSON
The Associated Press
Saturday, July 21, 2007; 4:17 PM
DENVER -- Colorado Democrats voted Saturday to move
up their presidential caucuses to February, a month
earlier than planned, in hopes of gaining sway with
presidential candidates.
The state's Democratic Party head, Pat Waak, said the
move would win attention for Colorado's nine electoral
votes, which candidates might otherwise choose to
ignore.
"I've been told by presidential candidates that they
aren't coming to states that are not in the early window.
They don't have the resources," Waak told delegates to
the party's central committee.
Most other states in the Rocky Mountain West decided
to move up their caucuses or primaries after a plan to
put together a Western primary fell apart, Waak said.
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