[SAJ]

Oh, RussieWussie is a candidate for Eyebrows' seat. Has a good chunk of the 'Rat conspirators behind him, but it's difficult to imagine him winning in Nov. The Carnycrats are from Rolla, and I rather doubt -- given prior animus between the Carnycrats and the former multi-term SDS slipshod Marxist mayor of STL (that's Vincent Schlemiel, (wups, Schoemehl, my bad) for all you non-Missouri FReepers, btw) -- that Russie is anything but detested in STL City, which sadly forms roughly 35% of the 3rd District. Naturally, not being a Marxist slimeball, I can't claim to have a thoroughly informed opinion as to the variegated 'Rat infighting.

[MHT]

Russ Carnahan is going to win the congressional seat. His gay sister Robin (who has now let her hair grow out and is being publically escorted by a male) will very likely be the new Secretary of State. Her name recognition (Carnahan) is higher than Catherine Hannaway's. No one knows she's gay and no one is going to ask. As Sec of State, she will be able to control the vote in St. Louis city, which might make it hard for Talent to win re-election. (On Election Night, 2002, her mother refused to concede to Talent until after 1 AM because the St. Louis vote hadn't been counted yet. They knew the count--but they were just waiting for their "fix" to show up and because of Blunt's vigilance as the current Secretary of State and the presence of federal election monitors, they couldn't do in 2002 what they did in 2000). Another member of the Gephardt machine, Holden, will be the Dems gov nominee, but will probably lose to Blunt, unless, as the DC Dems probably hope, a Gephardt on the ticket will "lift" the other Dems further down.

In spite of their attempts to pull off unspeakable voter fraud in 2000, Bush still carried the state, and probably would have carried it by more had there been no voter fraud. I do not believe that there will be voter fraud this year, but lawsuits about registration are already beginning so there is fear that the Dems are trying to make Missouri into the next Florida. (For example, the city of St. Louis is losing population at the fourth greatest rate of any American city but there are now more voters on the books than there are residents in the city--and how before November can those records be reviewed and corrected?)