01.09.09

Is it possible to emerge repeatedly?

Posted in General at 12:38 am by Clay

From Politico:

Sen. Kit Bond, the senior Republican from Missouri who sits on powerful Senate committees, announced Thursday that he will not run for reelection in 2010, giving Democrats a shot to pick up a seat in a state that has emerged as a major battleground.

While Missouri had the closest vote of any state in the 2008 US Presidential election, it managed to send its electoral votes to McCain.  Missouri last voted for the losing candidate in 1956, and before that, in 1900.  Since the United States hasn’t had terribly long strings of single-party presidential rule, I’m inclined to think that Missouri emerged as a major battleground in 1904.

Disclaimer: an officeholder deciding not to run again almost always makes an election more of a battleground.  I have to assume that Missouri’s senate election in 2010 will be significantly more competitive than the election of 2004.

01.08.09

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Posted in General at 11:51 pm by site admin

I’m not sure if this’ll bring more spammers in, but it is now possible to post a comment without logging in.

Edit:  It brought more spammers in, and the feature has been turned off.  I may turn it on for short periods of time after posting, though.