Posted on 03/30/2010 8:17:23 AM PDT by Palmetto Patriot
Missouri voters continue to be unhappy with Barack Obama and his health care plan and that's helped Roy Blunt to take the lead in the US Senate race.
Blunt is up 45-41 on Robin Carnahan, but that result probably has more to do with how the state feels about Barack Obama than it does about the candidates themselves. Voters who approve of Obama are voting for Carnahan by an 84-6 margin. Voters who disapprove of Obama are voting for Blunt 80-6. The problem for Carnahan is that a 52% majority of voters in the state fall in the disapprove column when it comes to the President compared to only 43% who think he's doing a good job.
Blunt's advantage comes thanks to a 47-35 lead with independents and also because Republicans are remarkably unified. He leads Carnahan 84-1 with his party's voters. The controversy over health care is helping to keep GOP voters on the same page, as they oppose the plan signed into law last week by a 93-1 margin. Overall 54% of voters in the state are against it with 37% in support, and 51% think Republicans should work to repeal it compared to 42% who believe the party should let it stand.
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Depends on who they are asking and where they live in Missouri. Kansas City is a little more conservative than St. Louis but both cities are overwhelmingly left of center while the rest of the state is ‘Missouri puke’ rural conservative.
What is 'Missouri puke'? I am a rural Missourian and have never heard that term before.
Blunt is coming to my county tonight. This will be the second time I've seen him in 2 weeks. He is an exceptionally poor choice to run, but there is no other option. Tonight I hope to have a few words with him on what we want, but know it will fall on deaf ears.
Is this the Roy Blunt on NPR radio Wait,wait, don’t tell me?
It’s an old term that means two things. One is from the early days of St.Louis before there was water treatment and those passing thru would get sick for a week from drinking it. Sort of a Missouri baptism. The other refers to the gangs of men mostly poor folk that showed up for jobs in the mines around Joplin and Galena. When I was a kid it was sort of generic for a person living in the country on a small farm. My grandfather told me that I was ‘slop bucket dutch’ since he was a mix of Indian, Irish,and dutch and a little bit of God only knew what. Missouri is full of such things. Women of ‘easy virtue’ were commonly referred to as ‘Hollyhocks’. I asked what was ment by that and was told that in the seed catalogues hollyhocks were described as having hairy stems and also as showy bloomers and they were not suitable for bedding but were best around outhouses and behind barns.
Interesting how even within a state our local phrases can differ. I am in NW Missouri, we also have a local vocabulary that I don’t hear in other areas of Missouri. Oddly enough, our local dialect and traditional phrases more closely resemble those you would hear in the deep south. I’ve always gotten a kick out of how ‘southern’ we talk when we are the furthest north in Missouri.
Yep, I went to college in Maryville and it was like you say, very southern. When I go down home in Vernon County it only takes about an hour till I start adding ‘A’ and dropping ‘G’ off words and I’m agoin or adoin.
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