Big States’ Push for Earlier Vote Scrambles Race

From today's NY Times. Discussion of legislation in the state governments of California, New Jersey, Illinois, and Florida, to have their presidential primaries as early as February. One of the points made in the article is that if candidates have to campaign in such major markets so soon the less known canidates will not have much time to get their names known to the voters. This may give a large advantage to those candidates beginning the campaign with a large amount of name recognition.