Posted on 11/11/2016 10:47:12 AM PST by tekrat
By February, State Auditor Nicole Galloway will soon be the highest-ranked Democratic statewide elected official in Missouri, not including U.S. Senate seats.
That will be because she will be the only Democratic statewide elected official in Missouri.
Republicans pulled off a clean sweep of their statewide candidates, no doubt assisted by a massive Donald Trump surge as he won by just over 19 points in the Show Me State on his way to the presidency.
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Show Me Proud !!
Now we need to find a suitable candidate to replace ‘nursing home’ Claire.
They need to start by holding hearings on how to completely reorganize the state university system and turn it into something sane that actually teaches students something useful.
Thanks 0bama.
Trump doesn’t have coattails.
Dividends from the Ferguson riots.
Proud to have done my part. Now if we can get rid of that idiot McCaskill it would be perfect.
Time to send Ma packing. Unfortunately, she is seemingly a fixture in this state.
I don’t think she’ll run. Retire and leave on her own terms or get voted out in an increasingly red state. The party may want her to move on, Nixon wants her spot and he can’t wait 6 years from leaving the governor’s office to run.
She actually ran ads for her Republican opponent, Aiken, during the Republican primary. Had either of the other candidates won the primary, I don’t think we’d have her. She’s always been a big Hillary supporter, so she may be too sad to continue. Trouble is, if she were to resign today, Nixon could appoint himself to the seat. I doubt very much that he will likely win any elective office from here on out.
Methinks Jaybird headed back to law practice.
Jay Nixon (D), who was in his final year in office, already was the most overridden governor in Missouri history. More overrides than all other Missouri governors combined.
Over his past six years in office, lawmakers have successfully overridden 96 vetoes of bills and budget measures.
With the new Republican governor, Missouri can now look forward to a new era of prosperity.
Claire is toast! She would have been gone four years ago if Aiken hadn’t slipped!
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/mo-senator-endorses-obama/comment-page-4/?_r=0
On paper Akin appeared the most ‘conservative’, but he played around with the devil’s advocates (mass media) and lost big time.
Aiken didn’t slip, he was handpicked as the weakest opponent. In our area McCaskill ran ads during the primaries saying “Aiken is too conservative for Missouri” and this area voted for Republicans more than 2:1 in the last election. It was red meat to attract voters away from the better candidates and people were weak-minded enough it worked.
His slip up is that he was too arrogant to step back for the good of the party and let another candidate run in his place after he his comments hobbled his campaign. He seemed to literally think he was God’s chosen one. McCaskill knew he was dumb that way.
Lots of Aiken haters I see. On the day of the Jako interview, he was up by 14 points.
I do not know Akin well enough to hate him. I get sick of the first response by many is to accuse somebody of hate. Akin should have never done that interview, because obviously he had NO clue his words would set off a firestorm that burned him and his campaign instantly. I voted for him... what he ignored is that Missouri is one third democrat, one third republican and the last third those so called independents... "His" choice of words gave nursing home Claire all "she" needed to win.
I agree he should not have done that interview and he should have avoided the topic - even though he is always misquoted.
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