Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe SACRAMENTO, June 5 (UPI) -- California and a number of other states hold primaries on Tuesday, which also happens to be 6/06/06, a day of fear for the superstitious. But the San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News finds few candidates afflicted with hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia, or fear of 666 for short. The number is supposedly the "number of the beast" from the Bible's Book of Revelations, although most religious scholars tend to regard it as just another number. Advertisement The newspaper suggests that the demonic nature of the day may have leaked into the Democratic primary, in which State Treasurer Phil Angelides and State Controller Steve Westly have been conducting an exceptionally nasty battle for the right to run against the unpopular Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. The candidates themselves say they aren't worrying. "It's just another day, a day in which we hope to celebrate a great victory,'' Nick Papas, a spokesman for Angelides, told the paper. "If it's Steve Westly, I'd say it's meaningless,'' Westly press secretary Nick Velasquez said. "If it's Phil Angelides, I'd say it's a bad omen.''
