UPDATE: Carnahan being drafted for Senate run on Facebook
Robin Carnahan
Carnahan, who was sworn in this morning as Secretary of State in Missouri, is considered the front-runner in the now wide-open run for U.S. Senate in 2010 when Sen. Kit Bond retires.
Within minutes of Bond’s stunning announcement last Thursday, there was already a “Robin Carnahan for US Senate” page on Facebook.
Haven’t found any yet for other candidates. If you see them, pass them on to tmessenger@post-dispatch.com, or come by my own Facebook page and drop me a note.
The likely Republican candidates for the election will be U.S. Rep. Roy Blunt, former U.S. Sen. Jim Talent and former Missouri Treasurer Sarah Steelman.
UPDATE: An alert Political Fix reader let me know in a matter of minutes after this post went up that Steelman, too, has a site drafting her to run for Senate.
Is there a Facebook site to tell Steelman to pack her stuff and go home?
Sure there is!
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=45388540901
Hey Tony, I know you Posties are in the tank for Carnahan … but did you really intend for the “my own Facebook page” link to bring up Carnahan’s page?
Nick,
I see you didn’t take a “I’m gonna be a nice guy” New Year’s Resolution in 2009. While I’m in the tank for nobody, I’ve fixed the link. I think. Glad to have you join my little Facebook family.
Tony
Tony - Please don’t mistake my sarcastic digs for unkindness. But you are certainly right, no nice guy resolution here. Anyway, the new link didn’t work either. I tried searching for Tony Messenger, but there were 3 pages of them, and I have no idea what you look like. Retry?
Hey Tony,
Maybe you should write another big article about Steelman’s facebook page. I would be that even if Steelman had the facebook page first, there was no article on Post Dispatch outlets hyping it, but as soon as Carnahan got a facebook, boom there is the article letting everyone know about it!
Oh, and yes, I dont believe for a minute that anyone at the Post is in the tank for any democrats…who could say such a thing! (detect any sarcasm here?)