Bodes well for the Democratic candidate for the 2d Congressional? :))

Wrong again Mr. Haas.

Akin is an effective legislator and well liked throughout his district on both sides of the Missouri River. Democrats have NO chance against him.

“Whither,” I think you mean.

Democrats have been talking for years about how they were going to take back St. Charles. It has yet to happen and there are really no signs point to it. Even the presidential primary doesn’t show it.

Lot’s of talk before the election by many of the Republicans in St. Charles taking a Democrat ballots to vote for Hillary. They believe she is the better candidate to run against in November. It appears that the strategy worked in St. Charles as Hillary won.

Another indication that this happened is that in the 16th House district over 50% took Democrat ballots but over 51% voted for the Republican candidate.

It used to be great entertainment to read the Democrat’s writings about winning in St. Charles. Now it’s becoming pathetic as time and time again they continually come up short and then make excuses about why they will win next time. This is just another sad example of that happening.

It is interesting to note that Blunt did not call a special election for an empty house seat up in St. Charles, perhaps because that district voted for the dem in the special election for senate a few months back. If Republicans have such a lock on St. Charles, why not call the special election? (He did call one if a safer district that Republicans only won by about 250 votes).

This don’t not say that St. Charles is about to switch, but I do think St. Charles is now in play for both parties. I the Republicans hope to hold it, they will at least have to spend some money to do it.

Charilie is right - the democrats are always saying “St. Charles is now in play for both parties” sort of line. They say it every election - they lose every election.

Dempsey didn’t lose his own Rep district when he ran for Senate so that distortion should be put to rest. It does indicate the extremes the democrats have to go to in order to “prove” their point.

Dempsey’s seat will require some money to be spent on it but democrats will be spending a whole lot to so it’s going to be a wash. The democrats spent a boat load of money - more than the Republicans from what I hear - on the 16th and lost pretty significantly given the amount of money and labor they put into the race.

The democrats should be embarassed that in an election where 60% of the people in St. Charles County took a democrat ballot and over 50% took one in the 16th that they couldn’t at least have gotten 49.9% of the vote in a special election. If I were the Republicans - I would encourge the democrats to continue spending money and time in St. Charles County - sparing other areas of the same.

Primaries have always leaned heavily toward democrat ballot takers in St. Charles county. Republicans will still be out in force in November.

All those that want to celebrate the dem candidate’s numbers in the special election in the 16th need only look at their poster-girl, Jane Bogetto, from Kirkwood, who won a special election a couple of years ago, only to be trounced in November.

Jim, you are right that the primaries in STC usually tilt dem, and that any dem candidate will struggle there (although I think the 17th and 18th and possibly 16th depending on who runs could be interesting), but I think that you have missed a bigger point. McCaskill won her senate seat because repubs did not have as a great a margin of victory in St. Charles as they have come to expect. This should be of great concern for your side in the upcoming statewide and national elections.

Akin is completely ineffective and is only well-liked by evangelicals and expectant donors. His Congressional web page says he’s working on issues that matter to Missourians. OK, except that most of the bills that he is sponsoring relate to stripping federal judges of power to hear lawsuits involving the pledge of allegiance, Ten Commandments, school prayer and other establishment clause challenges. Oh yeah, that’s way up on my list of concerns Todd.

I always figured St. Charles would become Democrat when enough affluent, highly educated people moved there. But I don’t think it’s there yet, despite the primary turnout.

Jim, again, you lie like a dog!

Todd Akin had ZERO legislation he has passed and only seeks to keep “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance. Name one piece of legislation Akin was key in developing, supporting and getting passed rather than being just another lock step Bush supporting knucklehead!

Jane Bogetto lost by 400 votes (hardly a “trouncing”) and ran a lackluster campaign where Mike Gibbons and the GOP spent about $400,000.00 to beat her.

As for St. Charles, its about time the folks there woke up and voted Democratic! The GOP only promises more of Bush, more of lost manufacturing jobs overseas (”outsourcing is a good thing”), more of less, recession and the greatest deficits in world history run up just after a Democratic president had the longest peacetime recovery in history, and projected budget surpluses into the far future.

Oh, and let’s not forget Iraq, the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time. We got out of Afghanistan, where the Taliban and al Qaeda and OSB attacked us and into Iraq. Now, Afghanistan may be a major staging place for future attacks on American soil (according to the US military).

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