Maria Chapelle Nadal is quite impressive this cycle:
She received the support of many of the women in her district because she is a fairly articulate backer of reproductive rights and was a Super Delegate to the Democratic National Convention. She’s endorsing the rabidly pro-life Mike Gibbons.
The criticisms, though, are a little weird. She dings him for cutting Medicaid benefits and approving a big tax credit for developers — things Koster did as a Republican prior to his party switch last year and bills that Gibbons, the senate leader at the time, also supported.
Finally, despite having $13,000 in the bank right now, has given only $3,900 to other House candidates such as $100 for Kirkton and Lavendar.
As she is known to say to others, and is abundantly clear, it’s all about Maria.
So Peter showed up at the Call To Oneness downtown St Louis today in what I think is a positive effort to attract African-American voters. It’s great when Republicans do that, but with most recent polling putting Barack Obama’s African-American support over 95% this is an interesting contrast:
Posted by Peter Kinder
One of the things about polls is sometimes you just end up with a bad sample. It doesn’t make the pollster bad, it just makes that particular result bad. For example the Politico poll showing a dead heat in Missouri with this finding:
Towery acknowledged that the poll showed a closer-than-expected race among black Missourians – Obama took a lower-than-usual 65 percent of the group – and said that if African-Americans ultimately vote for Obama by the huge margin analysts expect, “it will make the race closer.”
Sometimes you don’t like polls because they don’t give you the results you want. Sometimes you don’t like polls because they don’t conform to reality. This is one of the latter examples.
“Just this past week, we saw what Barack Obama said about judges,” Bond said. “He said, ‘I’m tired of these judges who want to follow what the Founding Fathers said and the Constitution. I want judges who have a heart, have an empathy for the teenage mom, the minority, the gay, the disabled. We want them to show empathy. We want them to show compassion.’”
Everyone’s concentrating on ‘the gay’ which is funny, but really read the rest–how is a having empathy for a teenage mom or a minority or a disabled person somehow bad.
Godwin’s Law Jackass.
The St. Louis CofCC had another hugely successful annual picnic. This year, the main speaker was a Missouri State Representative!
CofCC CEO Gordon L. Baum has been holding the annual picnic for decades. Before the CofCC existed it was held by the St. Louis Citizens Council.
The Eastern Pennsylvania CofCC chapter also held it’s annual cookout last weekend. This was the fifth annual event.
The Eastern Tennessee CofCC will be holding a cookout next weekend.
Errr…may I suggest the press do some work here and find out who it was?
Trying to prove voter fraud in 2000.
Gov. Matt Blunt appeared remotely this afternoon on Fox News Channel to repeat allegations against community organizing group ACORN. Blunt is among the officials in some states that claim ACORN has purposely been turning in bogus voter registrations.
Big difference–as long time readers may recall, I have been a huge critic of ACORN’s efforts in the past because they didn’t audit the people doing the registrations. They started doing that-and shockingly, the problems have largely disappeared. Don’t take must me word for it:
But this year, the group has caused no such problems, according to Republican city elections director Scott Leiendecker. ACORN finished its efforts in St. Louis about three months ago, he said. So far, he said, “Everything’s been on the up and up.”
Now, I haven’t talked to Scott about this in some time, but Scott was very concerned about previous situations. For him to be relatively satisfied is very telling.
Remember when the young, fresh Secretary of State demonstrated he was a complete boob?
CITY MISLABELED DOZENS AS VOTING FROM VACANT LOTS;
PROPERTY RECORDS APPEAR TO BE IN ERROR, SURVEY FINDS;
JUST 14 BALLOTS ARE FOUND SUSPECT
*BYLINE:* Jo Mannies And Jennifer LaFleur Of The Post-Dispatch 2001, St.
Louis Post-Dispatch Tim O’Neil And Eric Stern Of The Post-Dispatch
Helped Survey Properties For This Story.
*SECTION:* NEWS; Pg. A1
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Dozens of St. Louis voters are being wrongly accused of casting ballots from
fraudulent addresses in last year’s Nov. 7 election.
They are among thousands of registered voters who, based on city
property records, appear to live on vacant lots.
But a Post-Dispatch survey of every one of those suspect properties
turned up something else: hundreds of bona fide houses and apartment
buildings that seem to be wrongly classified by the city assessor’s
office as vacant lots.
Because of those inaccurate records, many of those properties’ occupants
have been wrongly tagged as registering to vote from fake addresses.
Hulsoff brought in a President who’s approval rating is somehwhere below what I thought the absolute floor was for such things.
Kinder is bringing in….Dick Cheney! A man I don’t think anyone is even polling for anymore. Better yet, genius Jeff Roe through Axiom is running robocalls against Sam Page for wanting seat belts on school buses….
That’s what uber genius Jeff Roe has? Perhaps he’s not that much of a genius after all. Then again, it’s better than talking about pedophile chiefs of staff and such.
David Humphreys, Ethelmae Humphreys, and Sarah Humphreys Atkins make their living by donating lots of money to Republicans. In their spare time, they run TAMKO Roofing. Sarah is from Virginia now, the others are from Joplin.
These donations total up to around $986K so far:
- $400K from the Humphreys to Kenny Hulshof
- $350K from the Humphreys to Peter Kinder
- $151,350 from the Humphreys to Michael Gibbons
- $85K from the Humphreys to Brad Lager
Who gets the millionth dollar of Humphreys money since we entered the era of Big Money in Missouri Politics? My bet is on Kinder.
Throwing good money after bad.
Missouri Governor — Few Toe-Holds Remain for Republican Hulshof As He Tries to Keep Statehouse for GOP: In an election for Governor of Missouri today, 10/13/08, to replace retiring one-term Republican Matt Blunt, Democrat Jay Nixon soundly defeats Republican Kenny Hulshof, 56% to 34%, according to a SurveyUSA poll conducted for KMOX-radio in St. Louis and KCTV-TV in Kansas City. Three weeks ago, Nixon led by 17 points. Today he leads by 22. Nixon is above 50% among men, women, young, old, white, black, Democrats, Independents, Moderates, Liberals, the more educated and the less educated, the lower-income and the higher-income, in greater St. Louis and in greater Kansas City. Hulshof leads among Republicans, Conservatives and Pro-Life voters.
In Missouri, John McCain’s Lead Among White Voters Has Evaporated: In an election for President of the United States in battleground Missouri today, 10/13/08, three weeks until votes are counted, Democrat Barack Obama has momentum and a meaningful advantage in SurveyUSA’s latest tracking poll, conducted for KMOX radio in St Louis and KCTV-TV in Kansas City. The contest in Missouri has swung 10-points to Obama since SurveyUSA’s last track point, 3 weeks ago. Then, McCain led by 2. Today, Obama leads, 51% to 43%. Among white voters, McCain had led by 11. Today, tied. There is movement among men, where McCain had led, now trails; among women, where McCain had been tied, now trails; among higher-income voters, where McCain had led, now trails; and among Independents, where McCain had led, now trails. In greater St. Louis, Obama had led by 5, now by 22. In greater Kansas City, Obama had led by 16, now by 31. George W. Bush carried Missouri by 7 points in 2004, and by 3.5 points in 2000. The state has 11 electoral votes, which are critical to any Republican who seeks the White House.
In a historically bad Republican year, Blaine Luetkemeyer is a historically bad candidate:
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee released a Global Strategy Group poll conducted October 5-7 of 400 likely voters with a 4.9 percent margin of error showing that Judy Baker leads Blaine Luetkemeyer 40-36 percent in an initial head-to-head matchup.
They might as well have nominated Brock–he was at least entertaining.