MO-SEN 2018: The Megathread

[GlobeSoc]

Petersons getting a disproportionate amount of attention. He's a fourth placer at best.

He has a large socialist following and has raised a fair bit of money, he won't win if Hawley gets in but he's good for about 25% of the vote

just like how george wallace had a large following in the civil rights movement

[GlobeSoc]

Another one of those illegal voters?

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Why does this law exist in the first place? Also, why should he permanently move to Jefferson City? McCaskill still votes in Missouri even though she (like all senators except a select few like Ben sadse) lives in Washington.

Ask the Missouri legislature.  It looks like the law has been on the books for many years.

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That's an excessively stupid law - however, when you're the Attorney General you should know that this applies to you

I poked around the Missouri statutes and AG seems to be the only state office with this requirement.

I wonder what the reasoning is, especially for just ONE office like that

Time travellers seeking to troll Hawley?!?

[GlobeSoc]

Lololol....the GOP is a mess:

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This might mean that Trump approvals are worse than we think in the state, or that Trump angered Hawley somehow

[GlobeSoc]

Dem ballots were 73% of the total in St Louis County: is that...normal? Seems very high relative to the usual margins. It doesn't strike me as a county where masses of GOP voters would be pulling DEM ballots to influence local contests.

At any rate, the final figure statewide was 52.3% GOP, 47.7% DEM:

that statewide total makes me hope for a relative D wave on the state legislative level this November in MO