The Vote That Won't Count: Missouri Republican Primary Co-Opted by Caucus
The presidential primary is set for the Feb. 7 ballot, Super Tuesday, but Missouri's March 17 caucus will help choose the Republican presidential nominee.
Even with presidential hopeful Rick Santorum’s visit to St. Charles County, Missouri is looking like an outsider in the presidential candidate selection process. Among those calling Missouri’s Feb. 7 presidential primary “meaningless" is Politico blogger Reid J. Epstein. One Republican presidential frontrunner, Newt Gingrich, won’t even be on the Missouri ballot. The state’s Republican primary is nonbinding. The Republican nominee will be chosen at a March 17 caucus rather than the primary. State Republican officials chose to go with a March caucus after the state Legislature failed to move the primary, as reported by the St. Louis Beacon. The national Republican and Democratic parties ruled that only four states could have primaries or …
KC
1:28 pm on Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Statements like "the caucus is legitimate, or they wouldn't be doing it," are ignorant and astounding because most people here in Missouri don't even know what a caucus is, the "they" is supposed to be the people, where do these random legislations come from....not the general public more ›