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King: Politics and Pigskin

LITTLE ROCK — “Weird and unpredictable,” one of the best reporters I’ve ever been around told CNN.

Ron Fournier’s description of the race for the Republican presidential nomination also applies to football in the SEC West and parallels can be found by those willing to employ a smidge of imagination.

Identifying the division’s Donald Trump is on hold for about a month, but there is clarity elsewhere in the sorting out process.

Start with Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio. In late April, the former governor of Florida and the current senator from that state were 1-2 in an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll and Trump did not register a blip.