Gov. Matt Blunt’s re-election announcement
I make predictions. Sometimes I’m right, and sometimes I’m wrong. And I was wrong when I predicted that Matt Blunt would choose not to run for re-election.
Blunt’s forthcoming announcement forces two important questions:
1.) How can the Blunt team portray their candidate as an against-all-odds success story without acknowledging that many of the problems he overcame were self-inflicted?
2.) How will two people who would/will make outstanding governors in their own right — Peter Kinder and Sarah Steelman — react to Blunt’s re-election announcement?
(A suggestion to my friends in the Blunt camp — go easy on the “surprise” angle. If the governor has been doing such a bang-up job, why should his re-election announcement be a surprise at all?)
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