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In the first phase, which lasted until early autumn, Gore high-handedly ignored the fellow running against him in the Democratic primaries.
There's a lot in the papers about Tuesday's California primaries.
The California primaries and ballot initiatives demonstrate that 1) California voters are content with the status quo (career politicians won big) and 2) it doesn't take money to win elections anymore (millionaire political neophytes lost big).
Sufficient money and party regulars and money have been assembled to make the primaries and indeed the general election even more than usually irrelevant.
Smiley's question on the primaries provoked both candidates into utterly unconvincing defenses of Iowa and New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation status.