Missouri 6/5

6:16 pm EST June 5th, 2008 | News | 2 Comments

The race is now a tie, with Democratic voters coming back to the fold and Obama leading with Independents.

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2 Responses to “Missouri 6/5”

  1. anotherbozo says:
    June 5, 2008 at 9:00 pm

    Exposing McCain for what he is, and what his record really is, is a job for a singularly eloquent spokesman. Fortunately we’ve got him. Obama’s seeming relish in preparing to itemize McCain’s record for the voters, I think, is no act.

    I remember Oliver’s great lines comparing Obama to Michael Jordan in a tight game, something to the effect of “Relax. You can breathe. He’s got it.”

    As long as we give Obama the $$$ to get the word out, he’ll nail it.

  2. revenantive says:
    June 6, 2008 at 10:02 am

    Missouri will be interesting this fall.

    When you look at the voting map, you’ll see two big blue hued cities on the edge (Saint Louis and Kansas City, respectively) with a large swath of red almost everywhere else.

    The hope here in Saint Louis is that the turnout in the two big cities will be significant enough to challenge McCain’s outstate strengths. I can see McCain cleaning up in the rural areas with a 90% (or more) edge. Outstate Missouri is very similar the rural South. It’s gonna be red, red and more red. I have heard it said that many rural Missouri voters have some of the most radically right views in this country. (For proof, check out Missouri State Representive Cynthia Davis’ record…we here in Missouri have also brought you fun national figures like John Ashcroft and Kit Bond, two of the biggest right winger morons in politics today…)

    Even our democrats kinda suck. Claire McCaskil, our new Senator who was an early endorser of Barack Obama, is very much like Hilary Clinton…except Claire almost single handedly fucked our state’s democratic party during the first part of this decade. Claire has always been a ‘me-first’ type of politician. After being elected as the State Auditor during the 90s, she ran a primary campaign against SITTING DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR BOB HOLDEN. After splitting the Missouri democrats nearly in two, she won the primary by a couple of percentage points. She got beat handily by a 33 year old Republican Secretary of State Matt Blunt (Congressman Roy Blunt’s son). Why did she choose to run against a fairly successful sitting governor? Most folks around here think it was just blind ambition. She sunk millions of her own money into the losing campaign.

    Two short years later, Claire rode the 2006 democratic wave to the Senate, beating incumbent Jim Talent by 3 percentage points. (Mr. Talent won the US Senate special election 4 years earlier from the late Mel Carnahan’s wife & widow, Jean).

    Claire McCaskil was a dirty name around here in Saint Louis, even after beating Jim Talent in 2006. A lot of the democratic base thinks of her as nothing more than a career politician who will do (and say) anything to stay in the spotlight. It has almost always been a Claire, and not the people she represents. She single handedly handed our Governorship to the republicans, and a lot of folks around here will probably never forgive her for that.

    We found it surprising that Claire actually had the guts to endorse Obama early in the primary season. She usually waits until the tea leaves are pretty clear before she makes political moves, which is one of the reasons some democrat politicians really just don’t like her. Her positions on crime throughout her terms as a State Representive are perfect examples of her following the pack for political gain. As a democrat who voted for Jim Talent in 2006 as a protest to Claire’s disruption of the party in 2004 for personal gain, I was quite pleased to see her early endorsement of Barack Obama. It has been a real salve to my wounds as a democrat after she single handedly fucked our state party’s apparatus for a shot as governor.

    I don’t venture too far from my hometown of Saint Louis, but I can say that we’re seeing a lot of Barack Obama bumper stickers. In fact, as of today I have yet to see a John McCain bumper sticker on a car here in the Saint Louis area. But I am sure once the general election kicks in, I’ll see massive SUV’s with McCain sticker next to a fading ‘W’ sticker…

    Oh, the joys of electioneering in a swing state!