Talent didn’t lose because Missouri is liberal. Talent lost because he shut up, unexpectedly, and tried to be gentlemanly. In addition, Claire ran as a country girl, something she hasn’t been for decades, which got her more outstate vores than a liberal normally gets. Add to that the reluctance of the bishops to criticize her by name as pro-death and she gets the Catholic vote.
one-two-three.
The Pubbies had better realize there’s more to being elected than ideas and more to governing than consensus and reason.
A well planned and perfect liberal ballot, that the blind GOP did NOT wake up to until the dye had been cast.