The Democrats are also holding a primary here Tuesday.
The Democrats are not holding a primary, the brochure noted (they are holding closed caucuses next month).
The party is holding a primary on Sept. 12 between Louis Wein, its candidate for governor in 1990, and John Adofope, a telephone company engineer.
But party leaders, who see Mr Samán as a loose cannon, ruled out holding a primary that he might have won.
The most serious one is that some of the kinds of Democrats and independents who provided the McCain margin of victory in Michigan, where only the Republicans were holding a primary, will doubtless vote in the Democratic primary in Ohio.
Democratic leaders said Sunday that holding a primary a week before Feb. 5, when roughly 25 states are to vote, would ensure that national attention is focused on Florida regardless of whether its delegates are seated.
Holding a primary debate would be a coup for Univision, the leading Spanish-language TV network in the United States, at a time when it is expanding its news operation and gaining attention for sometimes having higher ratings than some English-language networks.
"Every person who has won here, unlike Iowa and New Hampshire, has gone on to win the nomination," said Katon Dawson, a former chairman of the Republican Party in South Carolina, who had supported Mr. Gingrich and is now backing Mr. Perry, referring to every outcome since the G.O.P. started holding a primary in the state in 1980.
On Thursday we announced that we are holding a "primary" that includes each 2008 presidential candidate.
Chandler feared Laffoon, who controlled the State Democratic Central Committee, would attempt to hand-select the Democratic gubernatorial nominee by calling a nominating convention instead of holding a primary election, and he used a bold move to circumvent Laffoon's ability to carry out such an action.
In the study, moonlighting was defined as additional paid work – whether of a nursing or non-nursing nature – done by nurses in a private health facility, another government health facility, an insurance company, private health laboratory, or in the same health care facility while holding a primary, paid nursing job, but excluding overtime (42).
