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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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If you want to register online, you must do it today by noon.

You can still register in person, at the door, this weekend and pay higher prices.

Congrats to Gus Wagner, whose Rocket Group LLC designed and implemented the best-looking, easiest-to-use Lincoln Days website to date. Great job, Gus.

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The January issue of Campaigns & Elections is now online.

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An eagle-eyed reader pointed out that I linked to the version of the Dem/Jay Nixon/race article that ran in Sunday’s St. Charles Post-Dispatch, which is shorter than the version which ran in the rest of the region’s papers.

The full-length piece is here.

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