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Regardless of who wins or loses, this will the year people look back on as the turning point of the way primary elections are done.

States are wanting more and more say in the elections, and have been moving their primaries up. This showed a fundamental unhappiness with the way the primaries are currently done.

Guliani is banking on this being the time when things need to change for the primaries. If he's right, the "first states" will no longer matter. It will be the largest states that matter. If he's wrong, the "I'm first" states will continue to battle moving the next primary up further and further until the American people finally say "that's enough" and propose a different system.

Personally, I think we ought to do away with individual state primaries and just have one general primary. The candidates will have to choose how to spend their limited funds to get the most bang for their buck. I would like to suggest that it would encourage fiscal responsibility, but this is politics and I know better.