As Missouri politics turn from purple to red, presidential campaigns skip the state
"Since shortly after the turn of the century, the GOP has enjoyed its unusual dominance in the Missouri General Assembly, boasting veto-proof majorities in recent years that have allowed the legislative branch to run roughshod over Nixon. Also, Republicans control six of the state’s eight congressional seats.
Democrats, though, have demonstrated an uncanny ability to continue winning high offices. The GOP’s penchant for divisive primaries has contributed to the success of Nixon, McCaskill and two-term attorney general Koster.
Another factor favoring Republicans these days: TV advertising. It turns out that Missouri is a highly inefficient TV advertising purchase for presidential campaigns — or any other campaign, for that matter. Buy television in Kansas City and roughly half the households reached are in red state Kansas, which hasn’t gone Democratic for president since Lyndon Johnson in 1964.
Buy it in St. Louis or Cape Girardeau and there’s heavy spillover into Illinois."
Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article92217492.html#storylink=cpy
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