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It’s odd the presidential primary stuff you can find through Google

I live in Missouri. Just for fun, I Googled the name of a nearby tourist trap -- I mean tourist ATTRACTION, sorry -- and it was really odd what I got. What I searched for was "Branson Missouri," an odd little town that's become a huge tourism magnet in Southwest Missouri.

Near the top of my search at the Google News site, I found a Reuters News service "FACTBOX" about Missouri and its role in the Super Tuesday presidential primary shindig tomorrow. I discovered some political/presidential facts of interest in this little Reuters page. For example, Missouri voters have gone in favor of the winner in every presidential race in the last 100 years except 1956. (Don't know what happened to those good folks in 1956, but they didn't get it right.)

Then, the next to last paragraph about Missouri and presidential primaries said this:

"The country music resort town of Branson in the Ozark Mountains has become one of the top tourist destinations in the United States, drawing 8 million visitors in 2006."

How truly odd is that? If they were doing a piece about Branson rentals, tourism in general, Branson tourism in particular, or any number of things related to country music, I could see including that paragraph.

I can only assume the good business and tourism folks of Branson, Missouri, paid to have that inserted as sort of an "infomercial" to draw people to Branson. Good job, Branson. We'll keep getting all those dollars from folks wanting to gawk at "hillbillies" for years to come.

Ah, well, what do I know. I'm just a guy who reads the papers.
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