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Feb 09 2008 12:00am EDT
What's the Matter with Kansas?
There was a book by that title a few years back, by a liberal journalist asking why so many in the state voted against their own economic interest. The phrase actually comes from a turn-of-the-centure editorial by the famed newspaper man William Allen White who wanted to know why the Jayhawk state was falling behind its neighbors economically. I'm not sure I bought the book's premise but it's the right question today. Mike Huckabee is crushing John McCain in the state's caucuses. McCain is only getting about a fifth of the vote, Huckabee is in the high 60s, and Ron Paul is getting more than 10 percent. Didn't they get the memo that their votes don't count? It looks like annoyed conservatives are not going to go quietly into the good night.
