I think Taylor has it right. Missouri is NOT a liberal state. The more liberal a candidate is, the less chance he or she has of winning a statewide general election. Harris and Donnelly fear Koster for the same reasons that Gibbons fears Koster - he has the most and best experience, and is a moderate. I don’t know who is going to win this primary, but you can bet all your nickels that Gibbons is praying that Koster loses. Gibbons fears Koster. Gibbons would love to face Harris or Donnelly. His message wil be that they are just ultra-liberal politicians. And he is absolutely correct about that. A vote for Harris or Donnelly in the primary is a vote for Gibbons to win the general.

All polls deserve to be taken with a grain of salt, especially one that shows a candidate ahead in St. Louis who has little presence in the area. I’m still curious about the methodology. If someone would post me a link, I would be most grateful.

Gretchen, thanks for answering my question. I don’t watch much TV, but I have seen an ad from Margaret and an ad from Koster. My wife, who watches a little bit more TV, has seen both several times. Neither of us has seen an ad from Harris.

This just makes me chuckle. Donnelly, whose number one qualification is that she’s the choice of the rich ladies in central St. Louis County’s “women’s caucus” resorts to innuendo about the ehtics “scandal” she and Harris spent the past six months trying to generate a headline about. Pathetic. Can’t wait o see her and the rich girls club get their collective butts handed to them next week.

Is Mike McMillan a rich lady, bemused?

Margaret Donnelly’s number one qualification for the job is the 20+ years of experience of fighting for Missouri families as an attorney, in local government, and as a legislator. None of her competitors, R or D, can compete with the breadth and depth of her experience.

Does Donnelly have 20+ years of experience “fighting for Missouri families” on top of her 20+ years as a divorce lawyer? Oh, sorry, that is what you are referring to, my bad.

FYI, most people do not consider being a divorce lawyer “fighting for Missouri families” rather that is Missouri families fighting.

I’d put Margaret’s record defending abused children and spouses up against any of her rivals.

This is a link to the research 2000 website. http://research2000.us/about/
Del Ali is a fairly well known pollster. I would think while his poll may be off a little it wouldn’t be off by a lot.

Unfortunately, Taylor, I don’t think Koster is running third. He is second and that is why he is such a threat.

The problem with Donnelly for both the primary and geneeral has always been that she hasn’t been able to generate much support outside of Kansas City and St. Louis. One representative from Springfield and Becky Cook. That is it.

Not only does it make it tough to win a primary, it is even tougher to win a general. If you look at our candidates that have been elected statewide in the last four or five elections the only one from St. Louis to win is Nancy Farmer who had a rural sounding name. The rest and I mean all of the rest like Carnahan, Holden, Maxwell, Cook, Montee, Nixon, and McCaskill were not from St. Louis. We have to be realistic here. A vote for Donnelly could help Koster win. Even if Donnelly wins the primary she will face a very difficult general election. I will work hard to help her win but it will be very tough. I think Jeff would be a better attorney general. He worked in the office and he was the democratic leader. But even if you don’t believe you have to realize that Donnelly is fading. Jeff got every newspaper endorsement outside of St. Louis. I also got an e-mail saying he got the UCFW endorsement. Donnelly’s fundraising has faded the last week while Jeff’s have ballooned. Please don’t waste your vote.

I’ll go even one better, I would put Margaret’s ability to act as a divorce lawyer up against any of her rivals. In divorce court, she is the BEST!!!!

Question, If donnelly had polls which showed Harris in the lead, why would she attack Koster and not Harris? I would think she would attack Harris, correct?

I know about the P/D Poll from a few weeks ago, but, if Koster was not ahead in everyones polls today, why is everyone attacking him?

Harris supporters seem to be trying to scare the Donnelly supporters out of the race but I do not get why anyone would believe Harris is ahead. Based on the recent ads, Koster must be ahead, correct?

Jessica, we’ll see what shakes out next Tuesday. I expect that Margaret will be competitive all over the state and will win the Democratic nomination.

I’m still waiting for a real link to methodology on that poll.