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Dukakis: Change primaries

The Electoral College should be abolished and presidential primaries should adhere to the same schedule every election cycle to prevent the battles over states moving up primary dates that marred this year's race, former Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis said at Hofstra University yesterday.

Dukakis, the former Massachusetts governor who ran for president in 1988, identified...

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