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Did Sen. McCaskill (MO) backstab Gov. Perdue (NC)?

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  February 1st, 2011 at 08:00 PM  | 

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(H/T: Say Anything) having St. Louis for the 2012 Democratic convention, on the rationale that having the convention in Missouri would be the equivalent of painting a big electoral target on her back for all those awful, awful Tea Partiers. Which is… interesting. First off, I’m pretty sure that Missouri Republicans – which had a decent-to-good run last year (cemented control of the state legislature, held off Caranhan in the Senate, kicked Ike Skelton to the curb) don’t really need the excuse of a national convention to focus their attention on Senator McCaskill.

Second, at last look Sen. McCaskill is looking at an average 43.2%/46% approval/disapproval rating right now… which is, well, awful.  But it’s still better than Gov. Perdue’s, which is currently at 36.6%/47.2%.  For that matter, North Carolina Republicans are cheerfully aware that all they need is a win in 2012 to take full control of the state government (they flipped control of the state legislature in 2010): so if McCaskill’s (alleged) argument that the DNC’s a lightning rod is correct, shouldn’t she have taken the hit for Team Jackass?  After all, Jay Nixon’s popular enough, and that’ll probably be a help for McCaskell next year…

Moe Lane (crosspost)

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  • http://www.FranBaker.com frankieb

    Jim Talent is out and Sarah Steelman is … well, ‘nuf said. We need someone who’ll hold ol’ Claire’s feet to the fire on her Obama-airline-hostess votes on health care, the stimulus, etc. Jay Nixon is, for the most part, governing more like an R than a D. And for that, I credit my neighbor/state rep Mike Cierpiot and the rest of the state’s house and senate Republican majority.

    Who’s going to run against Claire? That’s the Show-Me question.

  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine
  • freemanja1991

    You forgot winning the state auditor’s race. Russ winning by 2 points and less than 50%, and Cleaver winning by less than 10 points.

  • redcometchar2010

    We do have a good candidate running for the Senate. Ed Martin came within two percentage points of knocking off Russ Carnahan. Granted it was a very good year for Republicans in Missouri, but the 3rd district is heavily democratic (D+7 according to Cook) and he was a good candidate then. If he can come within two points in the 3rd, he’ll do fine in the more Republican parts of the state. My only fear is that Steelman will do what she did to Hulshof in 08 and do more damage to him than to Nixon.