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I agree with you magritte. Here is an article that explains what happened in MO. It even involved a dispute with our democrat Governor Nixon. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/02/why-missouri-is-holding-a-meaningless-primary/ The state party, meanwhile, didn’t even want the primary to happen. That’s because today’s vote won’t be the main event: Missouri will hold caucuses on March 17, where voters will begin the process of selecting and allocating delegates. Today’s primary is a vestige of state law that Missouri’s GOP-controlled legislature failed to change. State Sen. Engler noted that holding today’s primary will cost the state $7 million, according to the secretary of state’s office. “We’re cutting $500 million out of the budget, and we’re going to fire 4,000 workers,” Engler said of his colleagues’ opposition. “They knew we were wasting money.” But Democrats will hold their presidential primary today, too, and doing away with the primary entirely could have forced them to adopt a caucus system. All of Missouri’s eight Democratic senators voted against the bill; so did eight of its 26 Republicans. Missouri’s Republican lietenant governor, who casts the tie-breaking vote in the state senate, was not present. And here we are today, with Missouri holding a delegate-less primary, critics crying foul over the expense, and Santorum angling for a notch in the “W” column that could make his Tuesday night a bit more successful.