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 »
This year, there are 33 Senate seats up for election with 23 of them currently held by Democrats or independents who caucus with Democrats (Lieberman in Connecticut and Sanders in Vermont). Currently, the Democrats control the Senate by a 53-47 margin. Of the 23 Democratic seats, seven incumbents are not running while of the ten Republican held seats, four incumbents are not running. One of | Read More »
With all but a handful of states having completed their primaries to determine Senate and House races in November, it would be a good time to look at how Tea Party endorsed candidates are doing. There are still a few high profile primary elections yet to go- Massachusetts, Arizona, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Additionally, there is run off election in Georgia to determine three Republican nominees | Read More »
We have made it through the July hinterlands of primary elections and the season picks up now through September 18th when Massachusetts will hold their primary. However, there are a few interesting races that will occur in the first half of August that will set the fields for the Congressional races and of the six states holding primaries from now until August 11th, five states | Read More »
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 »
In the interest of time, I decided to dispense with Nebraska before discussing neighboring Missouri. In the Cornhusker State, two words describe Democratic chances this year: NO WAY!! Incumbent Republican Governor Dave Heineman is up 43 points the polls over his opponent, Mike Meister. With no Senate race, all three Republican incumbent representatives should win and fairly easily. Perhaps the only race that might | Read More »
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