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To: Impy; fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; Perdogg; randita; St. Louis Conservative; BillyBoy
If Todd Akin does run, perhaps Ed Martin should switch gears and run to succeed Akin in the House. Martin is a very strong conservative with TEA Party support and residual name ID from running in an adjacent district last year, and the district is safely Republican.
12 posted on 05/05/2011 5:11:51 AM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Muslims are a people of love, peace, and goodwill, and if you say that they aren't, they'll kill you)
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To: Clintonfatigued; Impy; fieldmarshaldj; Perdogg; randita; St. Louis Conservative; BillyBoy

If Todd Akin runs for the Senate and Ed Martin decides to run in the MO-02, he’d have to move if he wants to be able to vote for himself, since he lives in the southern part of the City of St. Louis (all of which is now in the MO-01). That doesn’t necessarily mean that he’d be viewed as a carpet-bagger with no ties to the disctrict, but Martin seems to be more of an old-school, blue-collar, urban conservative, not an affluent suburban conservative like most MO-02 voters, and combined with his recent arrival to the district may place him at a disadvantage in the GOP primary. I would love to have Ed Martin in Congress, but his greatest electoral strength (outperforming Republicans in blue-collar, urban areas) would not be much of an asset in the MO-02.

I was wondering whether former state representative Sherman Parker of St. Charles County, who challenged Akin in the 2008 GOP primary, would be running for the seat again if Akin ran for the Senate, but I see that he died at age 37 in 2008: http://www.shermanparker.org/


14 posted on 05/05/2011 6:28:43 AM PDT by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll protect your rights?)
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