What the hell is the matter with Missouri? WHY is John McMansion up 10 points here? And how does Obama put this purple state into play? That's what I wanna know.
Something's definitely rotten in the state of Missouri -- I've heard it firsthand, from Hillary moaners to -- get this -- a solidly Democratic family offering comments like this at a birthday party last evening: "I just don't like that Obama." "He doesn't have any plans." "He's too centrist."
Mind you, I wasn't AT that party; my wife was. And she's not as politically. . . forceful. . . as I am. So she didn't say, "So you like MCCAIN?" or "And what do you think McCain's plans are? Other than forcing rape victims to bear the offspring of their rapists?"
Educated, pro-choice Democratic voters, sounding as if they can't be bothered to go to the polls, or are waiting for someone better. One guy actually said he'd probably vote Nader.
So what's Obama gotta do to get through to Missourians? Hell, I'm not even talking about the conservative rural folk; this is in traditionally Democratic Kansas City!
Console me, advise me, tell Obama's team what to do. Bush won this state by a few points in 2004; how, I do not know. I can't BEAR to watch Missouri go Moron yet again!