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Playing 'What If' When It Comes to Missouri Politics
Even if the state's presidential primary had carried delegate weight, would Mitt Romney's defacto hold of the GOP nomination be any different now?
Missouri politics may be the best arena to ask “what if?” For instance, what if Republican Matt Blunt had decided to run for re-election in 2008? Would he have defeated then-Attorney General Jay Nixon? Or would he have been swept under the relative Democratic wave that year? And what if Chris Koster had decided to run for attorney general as a Republican? Would he have emerged victorious out of a GOP primary or would have been defeated by more conservative candidates? Political prognosticators can only dream. But a more recent version of that fun and exciting exercise comes about with Missouri’s presidential caucuses. After the legislature failed to move the primary date to March, Republicans in the state had to go through with a non-…
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Marc DeSantis
10:26 am on Friday, April 13, 2012
What if the media didn't pull the strings in political races and tell people who was the most electable candidate before they voted? What if Ron Paul winning St Charles and other Missouri caucuses made national news? What if people realized that they are being manipulated on both sides by social issues? And what if people actually paid attention and held politicians accountable for their actions? more ›