The Obama Factor In Missouri

TalkingSides.com ^ | 07/25/10 | CaroleL

[CaroleL]

In January of 2009 four-term US Senator Kit Bond (R-Missouri) announced he would not seek re-election in November, 2010. That made the Show Me State one of five with open seats Republicans will most likely need to hold if they want to take control of the Senate. As with most of the upcoming mid-term elections, voters' opinions of President Barack Obama and his policies will play a big roll in Missouri and as with most of the upcoming mid-term elections, that's not good news for the Democrat involved.

[Interesting Times]

will play a big roll...

Not much point in reading further.

[donozark]

This seat stays R as long as nothing unforeseen pops up.
Interesting aside, when Matt Blunt was Gov of MO, the media ripped him to shreds for directing $$ to ethanol projects that family members were involved in. Yet, it was revealed that Robin Carnahan directed $timulous $$ from Obama to her families investments in wind turbines, the media is silent.
Go figure!

[chronicles]

This Missouri voter will vote for Chuck Purgason in the Republican primary Aug. 3rd. Blunt will probably win and I will support him in the general election.

I lived in Rolla for 12 yrs-hometown of the Carnahans. I didn’t mind Mel Carnahan too much, but the political opportunism displayed by the rest of the family when Mel and one of his sons died in a plane crash turned me off completely. Their “keep the flame alive” campaign was over the top, and in bad taste.
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[FrdmLvr]

No further explanation than this is needed:

Blunt (R)

Carnahan (D)

[FrdmLvr]

No further explanation than this is needed:

Blunt (R)

Carnahan (D)

[chae]

What ticked me off the most was that Ashcroft stopped campaigning and the carnahan campaign kept airing smear ads on Ashcroft. And even then, they only won because of the polls in STL being kept open until all hours.
That sad, Blunt will win the nomination, but this one of my top 3 less then enthused about candidates.