Does Kander prove MO is not completely gone for Dems?

[MarkD]

Just because 2014 and 2016 had such very lopsided margins for the Republicans is no reason to say that the Democrats of Missouri look as if they're hopelessly outnumbered. Look at the other successes Missouri Democrats had in 2006, 2008, and 2012.

The basics of what is below: I tallied all votes cast for President in the last 4 elections, the U.S. Senate races from 2002 to 2016, the U.S. House races from 2002 to 2016, all six of the state executive offices in Missouri from 2002 to 2016 (Governor, Lt. Gov. Sec. of State, Treasurer, Atty. Gen., and Auditor (I did not count the 2014 Auditor race - no Democrat ran for that office that year)), and all state legislative races from 2002 to 2016. I only included in the tallies the votes cast for Democrats and Republicans; I left out the votes for Libertarians and other candidates.
The sum of all those races: 52.10% of all the votes were for Republicans, 47.90% for Democrats.
2002: 49.08% for Republicans, 50.92% for Democrats.
2004: 51.00% for Republicans, 49.00% for Democrats.
2006: 48.99% for Republicans, 51.01% for Democrats.
2008: 46.32% for Republicans, 53.68% for Democrats.
2010: 58.70% for Republicans, 41.30% for Democrats.
2012: 49.84% for Republicans, 50.16% for Democrats.
2014: 65.99% for Republicans, 34.01% for Democrats. (There wasn't a race for U.S. Senate, and I did not include the votes for the Auditor's race because there was no Democratic candidate, so this was based just on the votes for U.S. House seats and state legislative seats.)
2016: 57.84% for Republicans, 42.16% for Democrats.