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To: Andrew N. Cothran who wrote (601440)	8/8/2004 11:34:28 AM
From: Andrew N. Cothran	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

And don't forget Missouri. Latest events not good for Kerry. The Missouri primary A governor falls Aug 5th 2004 \| ST LOUIS From The Economist print edition And Dick Gephardt's probable successor is chosen FOR months, the governor's race in Missouri has been a headache for the Democrats. It is a state John Kerry must win in November. But the Democratic primary contest between Bob Holden, the incumbent governor, and Claire McCaskill, the state auditor, split them down the middle. As a result, both Mr Kerry and John Edwards avoided the state like the plague, leaving the Bush camp to claim that the Democrats had written it off. Swing states: Missouri Jun 3rd 2004 US Election 2004 Claire McCaskill won the race to be the Democratic nominee for governor of Missouri. Nancy Farmer and Christopher “Kit” Bond will slug it out in the Senate race. Russ Carnahan won the Democratic primary for Missouri's fourth district, becoming the favourite to replace Dick Gephardt. On August 3rd the contest reached a bitter conclusion when voters, for the first time in the state's history, threw out the incumbent in the primary. Coincidentally or not, Mr Kerry arrived in Missouri to start patching things up. This is necessary, for the fight was nasty, and things got personal. Mr Holden accused Ms McCaskill of allowing state payments to nursing homes owned by her husband, even after reports of abuse and wrongful deaths there. Ms McCaskill hit Mr Holden with a laundry list of alleged misdeeds and shortcomings. Her mud stuck better than his. The real winner so far has been Matt Blunt, the Republican secretary of state, who will face Ms McCaskill in the autumn. Mr Blunt, whose office oversees elections, has had some muck come his way: critics say he spent $48,000 in taxpayers' money to run newspaper ads promoting the primary with his beaming face plastered on them. Well financed and unrestrained, Mr Blunt may prove a strong challenger. In the Senate primary, Nancy Farmer, the Democratic state treasurer, beat the rest of the field and will face Christopher “Kit” Bond, long a fixture in Missouri politics. (He was elected governor, in 1972, at the tender age of 33.) At 65 the “boy-governor” act, emphasised by his childhood nickname, is starting to wear thin, with little to show for his time in Congress. But money will probably give him the edge. Meanwhile, the race to succeed Dick Gephardt, who gave up his St Louis congressional seat to run for the White House, was won by Russ Carnahan, a state representative who is the son of the late governor, Mel, and Jean, who served as the state's senator in Washington. Apart from throwing out the governor, Missouri behaved conservatively. Voters rejected gay marriage, overwhelmingly adopting a constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman. They also scorned the idea of building a casino near Branson, where pastel-suited lounge lizards go to croon when they grow too old for Vegas.