Arkansas vs. Kentucky

[golden]

These Republican primaries will take place on May 22, 2012.

[Donerail]

Arkansas, due to Senator Paul in KY.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Kentucky Republicans seem to be more "establishment", so  them.

[Indy Texas]

Kentucky has had a viable GOP infrastructure for much longer than Arkansas. The kind of blue-collar populist conservative voters who dislike Romney still tend to self-identify as Democrats in Kentucky. And the state tends to have a tradition of a more moderate Appalachian Republican Party (Senators John Sherman Cooper and Marlow Cook in the 20th century; Main Street Republicans like Ed Whitfield and Hal Rogers in the 21st). Rand Paul is the exception, not the rule, and would not have been elected in the primary or the general election if not for his family name recognition and the unique climate of 2010.

[CatoMinor]

Kentucky Republicans seem to be more "establishment", so  them.

[AmericanNation]

Paulites might turn out in Kentucky's primary, which whatever.  In the general probably Kentucky.  The VP might have some effect on that from across the Ohio.