Posted on 11/17/2018 5:58:03 AM PST by GuavaCheesePuff
U.S. Rep. Ann Wagner (R-Ballwin) survived the closest race of her congressional career, holding off Democrat Cort VanOstran in a year that saw key House districts across the country flip from red to blue.
VanOstran, a 30-year-old Clayton lawyer with a Harvard degree, ran an energetic shoe-leather campaign, betting that a healthcare platform would persuade voters in a traditionally Republican stronghold to consider an earnest Democrat.
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I'm of the opinion that we would be a whole lot better off if we stop sending lawyers and start sending business people to run our government... The only thing most lawyers care about is how much power and money they can steal...
One can but look to see what McCain did to the midterms with his treacherous thumbs down. Glad he’s gone.
Most successful business people don't want to take the pay cut.
On this, I gotta give the Democrats credit. They elected a bartender.
Vanostran is a pro-abort, gun grabbing, self described “Christian” who is really a commie as are most democrats. Glad the soy boy lost.
Missouri stays 6/2 in the house, and goes 2/0 senate, and is solidly a red state ( both state houses and Gov), with the exception of two or three counties/cities. Jefferson had an opinion regarding cities, even n the early 1800s, he was not kind, mostly.
The race was not at all close.
The article has a picture of an unhappy campaign worker that fills me with not enough joy. It would have been better to have one of them bawling their eyes out.
C.W.
Democrats agree on the importance of being earnest.
We won one????
51-48% was uncomfortably close and a serious warning sign (the 2nd is a merger of the former heavily GOP old 2nd and the Demonrat Dickie Gephardt-Rusty Carnahan old 3rd). Wagner won previously with 60% (2012), 64% (2014), and 59% (2016).
I didn’t notice till now but the filthy Rat Auditor, appointed by Nixon after the Republican killed himself in 2015, was “re”elected. Damn it! She never should have had that office in the first place.
I’m of the opinion that America would be better off if we burned the Harvard School of Law to the ground.
Maybe that’s just me.
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I’ve never understood why they hold the election for that office at a different time than the others.
Tom Schweich really messed things up with his suicide, which still remains truly a bizarre mystery. He’d be Governor today and would’ve appointed his successor to the job.
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