Show-Me Future For Missouri Democrats

This prog blog column regards Lucas Kunce as something other than a Pentagon spoiler and then totally forgets the best campaign advice that this contender ignored . . .

Avoid shooting people with less than a month to go before an election.

Even worse . . . Remember that some of our progressive pals even tried to spin that kind of nincompoop move and prove to us that so many progressives are just as trapped inside their own ideology as any conservative they would attack for the same kind of MAGA-centric solipsism.

Still . . .

This note is only worth a look because . . . Spoiler alert . . . The author posits that maybe the Missouri Dems might want to sit out elections for awhile . . . Rather than, ya know, coming up a workable platform that doesn't alienate most of the state and or focusing on core issues like healthcare and education that might find more allies than they could imagine. 

Here's the word . . . 

"The party hasn’t had a truly successful cycle since 2012, when former U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill won re-election and Democrats captured nearly every statewide office.

"Lucas Kunce lost by 14 points last month to U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley, and he still came the closest of any statewide Democrats to knocking off their GOP opponent. The rest of the slate lost by at least 19 percentage points.

"And in a cycle where legislative Democrats were expected to finally break the Republican supermajority in the House and Senate, the end result was the GOP margins held exactly where they were when the campaign began.  

"Missouri Democrats may or may not have hit rock-bottom, but after the 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022 and 2024 election results, what seems clear is that it will take a miracle for any Democrat to win statewide anytime soon."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

MO Indie: Where should Missouri Democrats go from here?

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