Show-Me State Showdown
By Gloria Borger
US News & World Report
Sunday, August 20, 2006
...The plans are obvious, but tricky to execute-especially in a state as notoriously independent as Missouri. Two years ago, George W. Bush beat John Kerry statewide by 7 points, and there's a Republican governor and two GOP senators. Yet now Bush's approval rating sits at 40 percent, and the GOP governor is only a hair more popular. Then there's this: Fifty-four percent of the Missourians say the war in Iraq was a mistake; 77 percent of the state's self-described independent voters say the country is headed in the wrong direction. Not exactly a Republican-incumbent-friendly environment.... [more]
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