Arizona residents have just a week to register to vote in order to participate in the state’s presidential preference election on Feb. 5.

It's official: Gov. Jan Brewer will not use her power to move up the date when Arizonans choose who they favor for each party's presidential nominee.

Gov. Jan Brewer is leaning to moving Arizona's presidential primary to the last Tuesday in January in hopes of getting a jump on most other states.

Gov. Jan Brewer is leaning to moving Arizona's presidential primary to the last Tuesday in January in hopes of getting a jump on most other states.

Gov. Jan Brewer is leaning to moving Arizona's presidential primary to the last Tuesday in January in hopes of getting a jump on most other states.

PHOENIX — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney swept Arizona's GOP primary with support from a broad cross section of voters who said they were focused on the economy, not immigration or the equally divisive issue of immigration.

PHOENIX — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney swept Arizona's GOP primary with support from a broad cross section of voters who said they were focused on the economy, not immigration or the equally divisive issue of immigration.

Voters in Mesa’s Legislative District 18 will have four new faces to consider before casting their vote in the Sept. 2 Republican primary race for the Arizona House of Representatives.

Political operative Nathan Sproul has made millions of dollars doing one thing: Building a bigger Republican Party.

Political operative Nathan Sproul has made millions of dollars doing one thing: Building a bigger Republican Party.

There’s a growing movement to pry open Arizona’s presidential primaries to voters who register with small political groups or choose to stay independent of any party affiliation, just as the Legislature already has done for state and county elections since 2000.

Arizona appears in line to get a Republican presidential debate.

Gov. Jan Brewer has to decide this week whether to move the state's presidential primary up to Jan. 31 in her bid to give Arizona a greater role in deciding who will be the Republican Party nominee.

The presidential primary landscape is crowded, presenting Gov. Janet Napolitano with a tough political puzzle to solve in her desire to give Arizona a say in the process.

Editor's Note: These letters to the editor have been sorted by topic by the Tribune editorial staff in an effort to allow readers to read varied opinions on the issues, candidates, and other circumstances surrounding the 2012 general election. These submissions are the opinions of the author, not the Tribune, and have not been edited for grammar or content.

A Republican state lawmaker wants to be sure Arizonans actually have a real voice in deciding who will run for president in 2016.

DAVIE, Fla. - Hillary Rodham Clinton won the Florida Democratic primary Tuesday night, an event that drew no campaigning by any of her presidential rivals and awarded no delegates to the winner.

Let Willard’s loss — and the primary debacles of Bachmann, Cain, Perry, Trump, Gingrich, Santorum, et al. — be a death knell to the far-too-large wing of the party that is anti-women’s rights, anti-homosexual, anti-minorities, anti-science, anti-evolution, anti-math, anti-education, anti-environment, anti-renewable energy, anti-non-Christians and climate change-denying. A wing that includes those who loudly and vehemently boast about balancing the books by killing PBS, NPR and Planned Parenthood (a combined microscopic fraction of the federal budget) and whose job proudly fails to include worrying about 47 percent of the American population (a group that is mostly the elderly, low-income and/or unemployed).

GETTYSBURG, Pa. — Bowing to the inevitable after an improbably resilient run for the White House, Rick Santorum quit the presidential race on Tuesday, clearing the way for Mitt Romney to claim the Republican nomination.

Arizona State University and Tempe will host the last presidential debate in 2004, giving the East Valley a front-row seat to the final weeks of the campaign for the White House.

DEARBORN, Mich. - Mitt Romney officially entered the 2008 presidential race Tuesday, a former one-term Republican governor of Massachusetts suggesting that his record of leadership uniquely positions him to tackle the country's challenges.

Some Arizona election officials are worried many voters will miss their chance to cast a ballot in the state’s Feb. 3 presidential preference primary.

Thousands of Arizona residents are registering to vote before tonight’s deadline in order to participate in the state’s presidential preference election on Feb. 5.

September 5, 2004