Somebody likes him.
"The people of Southwest Missouri have sent Blunt to Washington to represent them four times, returning him to Congress with 74.8% of the vote against two opponents in 2002."
Yeah, two opponents the press barely recognized, and Blunt felt it beneath his royalness to dirty his hands with debating said opponents.
This time, there's four opponents, however, and one of them is a rich - for this area - attorney. Maybe this time Blunt won't take his job for granted. It's time he stopped looking at his perpetual re-elections as an entitlement.