The town board doesn't appear to want one, either; it was unwilling to meet to approve a primary until after the primary deadline had passed.
But with an April 7 primary deadline approaching, some Republicans have been itching, almost obsessively, to attract a moderate candidate to fill the place of Anne Estabrook, a wealthy real estate developer who dropped out this month after suffering a minor stroke.
Of the states holding early primaries, the deadlines for entry have passed in New Hampshire, Florida, and South Carolina.
Jones is running unopposed in the Republican primary; the deadline for candidates to file was in early December.
[n3] And New York [p764] concedes that only one other State -- Kentucky -- has imposed as stringent a primary registration deadline on persons with prior party affiliations.
Until 10 days ago, Senator Torricelli had said he was interested only in running the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, of which he is chairman, apparently because he believed there would be plenty of time to toy with the race for governor before next April's primary filing deadline.
In what looked like a last-minute deal before Wednesday's primary filing deadline, Mr. Rosenthal, a prosecutor for 30 years in the state's most populous county, agreed under pressure to drop his bid in November for a third term as district attorney as the party announced it would welcome new candidates.
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS: www.lwv.org Voter registration deadlines, primary election dates by state, voter registration contact numbers and the National Voter Registration Form.
The San Antonio judges meet with the redistricting lawyers on Friday to talk about deadlines, primary dates and maps.
When the meeting was finally held this week, D.N.C. staffers walked Biden's representatives through the primary calendar, filing deadlines, the mechanics of ballot-access issues, and the complicated details of the party's state-by-state selection process for delegates and super delegates.
If Palin would decide to launch a presidential campaign, she would only have time to register for the South Carolina primary -- the deadlines for Florida and New Hampshire have passed.
