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lmachine
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Eh, they flipped one state house seat and showed pretty significant improvements over the 2016 presidential R-D splits in the other three. Midterms looking good for the Democrats.
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7_Sorrows
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I guess politics in Missouri are of interest to him. Anything wrong with that?
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Theo520
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I don’t think they will flip DC but I find it obvious Dems should refocus and recover some of their lost state legislators. The pendulum swings back and forth, and the DNC completely dropped the ball in state races, for almost a decade.
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Ridgerunner
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Well, I did too, but he apparently lives in Missouri, as you and I do, and so Missouri politics are of interest to him. Can’t say I find anything blameworthy in that and hope he keeps it up.Somehow I knew the author of this post simply by its content without even looking…
Missouri is a very conflicted state in many ways. Always has been. At one time it was pretty significantly Democratic. Now it isn’t, and the only reliably Dem segments are Jackson County (KC metro), City of St. Louis, and Boone County (U of Mo). St. Louis County can be Dem as well, just as one of the old “lead belt” counties can be.
Otherwise the whole state is Repub now, which is a relatively recent thing. Back when I was active in the Dem party, “Little Dixie” and “the Delta” were solidly Dem. That’s a lot of territory; basically the Mo and Miss River valleys. We even once had a Dem representative from the Seventh District. Now they’re very Repub and they have to "draft’ somebody to run on the Dem ticket in the Seventh. I think prolife sentiments are probably the reasons, though a more generally conservative culture probably is as well.
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