Mo. Senate Hopefuls Look to Rural Voters

At a beauty salon along Main Street in this small, western Missouri town, Debbie Cross vents her frustration over the lingering Iraq war, gas prices and a litany of other national woes.

''I feel like it's turning into another Vietnam,'' said the 48-year-old bank teller from nearby Appleton City. She voted for Republican Sen. Jim Talent four years ago, but says she's leaning toward his Democratic opponent, state Auditor Claire McCaskill, on Nov. 7 in the closely contested race.

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''There are 114 counties in Missouri, and 109 of them are rural,'' said George Connor, associate professor of political science at Missouri State University. Even with strong support from the traditional Democratic base in the two big cities, Connor said, McCaskill needs to make a sizable dent in the GOP's rural base to have a chance at winning.

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Democrats believe McCaskill may get a boost from a statewide ballot measure that would guarantee embryonic stem cell research can occur in Missouri. McCaskill has championed the measure, favored by 58 percent of voters according to a recent poll. Talent, a longtime abortion opponent, came out against the measure.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Missouri-Senate.html

Not sure if we can pull it out. TN and VA too.

Events alone don't account for the surge of support for Democratic candidates across the nation. Dean's insistence on a 50-state strategy accounts a significant percentage of the movement.

We are not going hear the insiders giving him the credit he is due. That is going to have to come from us.

And, perhaps we need to remind a few of these insiders of the ridicule they have heaped on Dean

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/01/magazine/01dean.html?ei=5090&en=551f820dec6af495&ex=1317355200&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=print



If we ever need a reminder of how the insiders view the people "out here" who are waking up and acting in their sovereign capacity, we just need to recall Begala's quote.

great answer(mine, not Deans) but they do belong to the United States of America and what's wrong with winning back the people that would be better off voting with us