McClellan: Voters can put Missouri back on the map Tuesday

McClellan: Voters can put Missouri back on the map Tuesday

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Missouri will have an election next week that doesn't count. I'm talking about the Republican presidential primary. It will not count because of national party rules that were meant to preserve the status of the states that traditionally have been first to select delegates for the national conventions.

Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina are allowed to go first. Everybody else is supposed to wait until March.

If a state violates these party rules by selecting delegates before March, that state runs the risk of losing delegates.

In an effort to preserve its delegates, the Missouri Republican Party decided that Tuesday's election won't count. Delegates will be selected during caucuses in March.

Making Tuesday's election even more meaningless, Newt Gingrich isn't on the ballot.

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