[steve8714]

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.

[Just mythoughts]

The Missouri ballot had ‘union’ wage increase on it and thus the ‘unions’ were energized to get out and vote. There was also a cigarette tax on the ballot which failed. And of course that ‘stem cell’ promise to all the welfare recipients the state of Missouri has on its rolls they would not get left behind.

A well planned and perfect liberal ballot, that the blind GOP did NOT wake up to until the dye had been cast.