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...Tuesday's Missouri primary, the delegates may matter less than the bragging rights...
...Clinton-Obama race has tightened dramatically in the past month, Cardetti added. Clinton started with a big lead built on a foundation decades deep. She and her husband occupied the governor's mansion in next-door Arkansas for most of the 1980s, and then Bill Clinton carried Missouri in both of his presidential victories. Last year, Hillary Clinton picked up the endorsement of Kansas City's powerful Rep. Emanuel Cleaver...
...bigger Super Tuesday states have more sway in picking party nominees - places like California, New York, Illinois and New Jersey. But the other states can't match Missouri's record as a barometer of the nation's mood. In politics, as in geography, Missouri is a state in the middle, where east meets west, north meets south, urban meets rural. For 100 years, no one has served as President who didn't carry Missouri at least once...
...That's why all the leading candidates - Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama; Republicans John McCain, Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee - have campaigned through Missouri in recent days. Obama and Clinton have made multiple stops as they scrambled for the edge in a race too close to call...
...because of how rich we are in delegates, but because of how rich we are in history as the bellwether state," said Jack Cardetti, a spokesman for the Missouri Democratic Party...