MO-GOV: Schweich dead from gunshot wound

[Senate Minority Leader Lord Voldemort]

This reminds me of how the picture with the stripper kept Kinder from running for Governor in 2012 (except this is much more morbid and tragic, obviously).

I'm not familiar with this story, but besides Blunt, now being the only statewide Republican, will he reconsider this race for 2016?

[Senate Minority Leader Lord Voldemort]

There's a pretty good St. Louis Post-Dispatch writeup on how much of a barrier anti-Semitism is in Missouri.

The article concludes that rural [Republican] Missourians just aren't exposed enough to the religion, exacerbating the urban/rural tolerance divide. But a divide of this magnitude just stuns me. The stark difference between voters and Republican politicians (who are so obsessively pro-Israel, not even Democrats who actually ARE Jewish can compare) is so mind numbingly huge, I just don't see how the anti-semitism is so widespread as the article suggests. I think it's just a few high profile bad apples, or am I just naive?

Unless Republican politicians are not actually representing the views of their constituents, which just seems like the gimme answer to this.