I blame Missouri on having the minimum wage on the ballot and the rural counties running out of ballots.
Then I blame rush. Talent had the momentum and rush gave that fraud mccaskill victim status with michael j fox.
Talent was focusing on her bad ethics and then fox came out.
As the incombent you never want to elevate your opponent.
But the minimum wage on the ballot was the real blow. Urban areas had huge turnout and they didn't come out for mccaksill. They have no love lost for her but once there they voted straight D.
Talent also shouldn't have appeared with Bush.
Rummy hurt talent in missouri too.
They can pull this every election too. Remember the press said the anti-gay-marriage issues were "ploys" to attract conservatives to the polls? So to the press, a real defence of marriage issue is a "ploy" and a repeated liberal minimum wage ploy is an "issue".
Rummy hurt talent in missouri too.
Unless the President is having sex or "non-sex" with an intern in the White House, I think it's a MISTAKE to not appear with him when the COUNTRY IS AT WAR and he is the public leader of your party. That every other candidate spoke out against the President and the War and tried on the Kerry flip-flops shows how little they care about the country.
And, if urban areas had "huge turnout" based on minimum wage increases, and NOT to vote for McCaskill, then it seems pretty unlikely that Rumsfeld meted a blip on their radar. Sounds like a "what can I get for MEMEME?" turnout.