The last shall be first. (Devil in the Details).(Washington, D.C. primary election)

THOUGH LAW AND TRADITION have made New Hampshire's snowy white Democratic primary the first in the nation, Washington, D.C., has apparently decided to try to steal the Granite State's electoral thunder. Jack Evans, a D.C. Council member who represents the tony Washington neighborhoods of Georgetown and Dupont Circle, is sponsoring legislation to make the city's Democratic presidential primary the first in the nation.

All 12 of Evans' colleagues on the council back moving the contest up from May to Jan. 10, 2004, and so does the city's mayor, Anthony Williams, who has vowed to sign ...

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