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This was the first time since the 1940's that California has held two primaries in one year. In their zeal to place <a href="http://www.dirtymoneywatch.org/article/?storyId=3314">term limit-extending Proposition 93</a><a href="http://www.dirtymoneywatch.org/article/?storyId=3314"> on an early February ballot</a>, lawmakers split California's presidential primary date from the
lower-profile legislative primaries and guaranteed that few would show
for the separate statewide vote in June. <br />
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If termed-out legislators had pulled off a win in February with Prop
93, they would have cake-walked to re-election yesterday in
California's lowest-turnout primary election in history....
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