From the Associated Press:
Colorado Democrats Back Early Caucuses
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: July 21, 2007
Filed at 6:50 p.m. ET
DENVER (AP) -- Colorado Democrats voted Saturday to move 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.
''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 plans for a Western primary fell apart, Waak said.
Democrats in Colorado have been growing in strength in recent elections. They also have high hopes for their role as host to their party's national convention in Denver next year.
''We feel that the pathway to the presidency is through the West,'' Elbra Wedgeworth, president of the Denver host committee for the Democratic convention, told state delegates.
Dick Wadhams, head of the state Republican Party, said he will mail ballots to the 500 members of his central committee by month's end, asking whether they want to move up their caucuses, too. Wadhams said he favors it and he thinks other party leaders will go along.
A new state law left it to the major parties to decide whether to hold earlier caucuses in presidential election years
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