State Rep. Crystal Quade should run. The only Democrat to survive in MO-7, a very Republican district in which I live. Nicole Galloway should run. Fat chance Greitens runs again. His political career is over.
La'Ondrill "Chuck" Brown is the only candidate running for the Democratic nomination. Though he's very inexperienced, I've been watching his campaign and he seems to be Progressive. Claire McCaskill embracing Centrism and alienating Progressive voters in 2018 is why she lost. I voted for Jo Crain. We need a Progressive candidate in 2020 or Parson is going to walk away with this one.
Progressives are destroying the Dems in general. You need to be in the CENTER in order to win statewide elections.
What did Harry Truman say on May 17, 1952?
How did progressive ballot measures fare in Missouri in 2018?
Progressive ballot measures are widely popular, but rural whites in Missouri don't vote based on economic issues, they vote based on cultural issues and racial resentment.
A Sanders-style Democrat wouldn't do any better than a moderate Democrat in Missouri, because basically all Democrats are the same in the minds of the hicks in rural MO.
Compare Jason Kander's 2016 result to Claire McCaskill's 2018 result. Which candidate (1) won a higher vote share overall and (2) came closer to victory?
Ah yes, because Roy Blunt was totally not a weak incumbent, who did not take his challenge seriously
Yes, because Claire McCaskill was totally not an unpopular Senator hated by Missourians, who only won, because her 2012 opponent’s campaign imploded
