USNews.com: Californias Earlier Primary May Rewrite the Rules of the 2008 Race, but Candidates Are Struggling to Figure Out How :
SACRAMENTO, CALIF.-The way Fabian Núñez sees it, moving California's presidential primary to February 5 next year from its customary June has already paid off. Testifying on global warming before the U.S. Senate in March, Núñez, the speaker of the State Assembly, was invited to an impromptu half-hour private meeting with Illinois senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama. On another trip to D.C., Núñez was dining with other California lawmakers when Sen. Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton stopped by the restaurant to say hello. They stayed for two hours. Former Sen. John Edwards, another Democratic presidential contender, has telephoned. And when Núñez ended the wooing last week by endorsing Clinton, he got an impressive campaign title: national cochair. "I wasn't looking to play a national role," he says in his office, where the drapes are emerald to match the green in the state flag. "But I'm not going to shy away from it, either."
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