Tuesday, competing with everybody else, most important night on the primary calendar, theyd be getting tons of attention from the candidates, theyd be the biggest state voting that day, theyd get all that ad spending, theyd get all that attention the state needs. They thought theyd be the beginning of march they ended up may 29th when it was all completely over on the republican side, at least, i mean, it was before the end of april when the rnc had already declared mitt romney the de facto nominee of their party and started putting National Resources behind him. It was cooked. It was done. By the time Texas Republicans got to vote at the end of may. And that was terrible news for anybody who really wanted texas to be a republican battleground in the president ial race in 2012. It was bad news for people who were sort of rooting for texas in that way but it was also particularly individually terrible news for this one guy in texas, this one statewide officeholder in texas who if nothin
Everybody else on super tuesday, march 6th, but in texas they had to push that primary back and initially got pushed back about a month, instead of march 6 th they were going to vote on april 3rd. Then they still hadnt settled it enough to hold the primary so they got pushed back again. Ultimately the texas primary didnt happen in 2012 until really, really late and it had a huge impact in terms of texas role in the president ial race. Texas thought they were going to be in the thick of it, super tuesday, competing with everybody else, most important night on the primary calendar, theyd be getting tons of attention from the candidates, theyd be the biggest state voting that day, theyd get all that ad spending, theyd get all that attention the state needs. They thought theyd be the beginning of march they ended up may 29th when it was all completely over on the republican side, at least, i mean, it was before the end of april when the rnc had already declared mitt romney the de facto nom
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