9 Days to Election Day: Missouri

By: davenj1 (Diary)  |  October 28th at 07:44 AM  | 

Missouri has a full slate of offices up for election this year and three questions on the ballot. In terms of presidential politics, Obama barely lost this state in 2008 to John McCain despite winning only nine of Missouri’s counties, three of them barely. While Obama can likely count on the population centers of Kansas City to the west and St. Louis to the east, | Read More »

Around the U.S. in 50 Days: Missouri

By: davenj1 (Diary)  |  January 18th at 07:57 AM  | 

The state of Missouri is shaping up as a very interesting state politically in 2012. Besides the Presidential election, there is a Senate race and Governor’s race, redistricting to reflect the loss of a House seat and lots of drama over those redistricting plans and the plans of incumbents. All of this occurs in a political vacuum until the courts decide the fate of the | Read More »