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Get Ready for Mega-Tuesday

It's official. California has moved its primary up to Feb. 5. Ah-nold's take:

"Now California is important again in presidential nominating politics ... and we will get the respect that California deserves," Schwarzenegger said during a bill-signing ceremony outside the historic Leland Stanford Mansion, a former governor's residence and orphanage.

But as I noted here last week, the state's lawmakers have more than presidential politics on their minds in making this move.

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