UPDATE: Missouri Senate backs early presidential primary

Wednesday, March 16, 2011 | 11:28 p.m. CDT; updated 7:27 p.m. CDT, Saturday, April 9, 2011

JEFFERSON CITY — The state Senate backed a plan Wednesday to push Missouri to the front of the 2012 presidential primary calendar — a move that would clash with a schedule agreed to by both major parties and that could cost Missouri votes at the national nominating conventions.

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