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Posted: 10:23 PM Mar 10, 2008
Last Updated: 10:23 PM Mar 10, 2008
Reporter: Lacey Steele
Email Address: lacey.steele@wbko.com

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This year's presidential primary in Kentucky will fall in May as usual, but there's more than one issue on voters' minds.

Many Americans want to be the deciding factor in this year's primary race for the Democratic presidential candidacy.

To do this, some states felt they should hold their primaries earlier than normal.

"On February 5th, on 'Super Duper Tuesday', with so many states involved, Kentuckians started to say, 'Hey, we want to be a part of this process,'" said Les Fugate, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State.

Fugate says that although Kentucky didn't move it's primary, it can still be a large part of this election if Florida and Michigan are not allowed to re-vote.

"We would expect to see lots of national media--lots of attention from the candidates, but if Florida and Michigan are allowed to vote after Kentucky, then those two larger states are going to take a lot of the attention," said Fugate.

If those two states do not re-vote, Kentucky would be the largest state left out of the primaries in May and June when it comes to voting delegates.

"Secretary Grayson has advocated that our primary process is broken and we need to do something else to fix it, and he calls for a rotating regional plan," said Fugate.

The plan would involve splitting the country up into four regions. Only one region would vote per month beginning in March, and the regions would rotate every four years. This would allow all regions to have the chance to hold their primaries first.

Besides the timing of primaries, there is another issue on many voters minds. What about a combined ticket with both Obama and Clinton?

Here's what some Bowling Green residents had to say.

"As far as them being on the same team, I kind of feel like that they're wanting to change the same things, so with that it really wouldn't make a difference," one resident said.

"I would like to see Hillary in office as president, and I would love to see Barack with her, it would be a wonderful change for this country," added another voter.

"I think that it might be more a possibility if Clinton is the nominee than if it was Obama."

For more information on the rotating primary plan, click here.

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Posted by: iva Location: bowling green,ky on Mar 20, 2008 at 06:35 PM
I think michigan and Florida should be allowed to vote

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